Paid Media Activation Manager

The Microsoft Global Media Team is responsible for planning, activating and fiscally managing all media spend across Microsoft. The team works across a broad group of internal Microsoft products and business groups, driving business impact by leading the development of innovative and world-class media strategies designed to meet our stakeholders’ unique business goals. The team’s responsibilities extend to driving market intelligence and contributing to Microsoft’s media innovation across media channels and ad tech. Microsoft’s Global Media Team is a diverse, collaborative, solutions-oriented team committed to infusing diversity and inclusion principles into our hiring, our communication, our innovation, and the way we connect with our customers through advertising. We’re building a Frontier Marketing organization that delivers integrated strategic end-to-end planning, execution, optimization and measurement across our paid and organic demand engines supporting Microsoft's Customer Solution Areas. Our teams operate with agility, blending human creativity and AI-powered insight to drive impact at scale. We prioritize outcomes over activity, embrace rapid learning loops, and collaborate across disciplines to reimagine what’s possible in modern marketing. To support this transformation, we are seeking a Paid Social Activation Manager who will be supporting Microsoft’s in-house, quick turn, paid social campaign activation. Are you a marketer who is passionate about bringing paid social strategy to life and delivering on the required business results through world class paid social activation, data driven optimizations, and reporting & insights? In this role, you will execute on paid media strategy with hands-on-keys activation in native publisher platforms and via tools like Sprinklr. The ideal candidate has hands on experience building, launching, optimizing, and reporting on paid social campaigns across all major social publisher platforms, including Meta, X, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. They must have a growth mindset, be able to adapt to change, and be eager to innovate at the intersection of media, data, and technology.