Director Product Marketing Manager

Microsoft helps technical audiences build skills, solve real-world challenges, and turn ideas into impact. The Commercial Cloud & AI Technical Audience Marketing team connects audience insights with compelling content and experiences that help developers, architects, data professionals, IT professionals and technical decision makers discover learn, build, and succeed across Microsoft technologies. We bring audience insights, technical depth and storytelling together to address practical needs and strengthen understanding, confidence and adoption. We are looking for a Director Product Marketing Manager to lead content strategy for first party events such as Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite and AI Tour. You will translate technical audience needs and business priorities into compelling stories and content that support learning and customer engagement across Microsoft technologies. This role owns content direction and priorities, working with cross-functional partners to deliver relevant, high-quality experiences and measurable impact.

• Lead content strategy for flagship events across Microsoft technologies, aligning themes, messaging, and technical depth with audience needs and business priorities.
• Analysis of Customer and Market Signals: Lead the evaluation of audience research, customer feedback, and market insights to identify practical scenarios and learning needs.
• Value Prop Positioning, Messaging, Bill of Materials (BOM): Drive the development of compelling narratives, messaging, and customer stories that connect technical capabilities to real-world scenarios.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Develop partnerships and become a trusted advisor across Product Marketing, Skilling, Developer Relations, Engineering, Community, and Events.
• Go-to-Market: Define the content strategy for the end-to-end customer journey before, during, and after flagship events.
• Define success criteria and performance metrics to assess content quality, learning, engagement, and business impact.

Required Qualifications: Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4+ years experience in business OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years experience in product marketing, content strategy or technical audience marketing, with demonstrated ownership of strategy and priorities across stakeholder groups.