Sr. Product Marketing Manager Linux on Azure

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. Microsoft Azure is a growing, global, and trusted public cloud that is central to Microsoft’s overall success. The Azure Product Marketing organization is responsible for Azure’s global go-to-market approach including defining the customer value proposition working in partnership with the Azure engineering team, determining the marketing mix and investments to maximize product growth, developing memorable storytelling and impactful customer-engagement moments, and defining the channel and sales priorities aligned with our product strategy. As a Product Marketing Manager, you will be playing a critical role by positioning Azure as the best destination for workloads running on Linux and that may include open source software. You will work closely with engineering, marketing, and sales to drive increased adoption of Linux workloads on Azure. As a Product Marketing Manager, you will analyze customer and market signals, craft compelling messaging and positioning frameworks, and help develop effective strategies for customer acquisition and retention in collaboration with others. The successful candidate will possess a passion and understanding of the “Hyperscaler” cloud businesses (Azure, AWS, GCP) and associated key trends. This role requires a passion for technology, with an understanding of the sales and marketing levers and a vision for how we can gain share. The candidate will have the ability to analyze and diagnose business challenges, formulate solutions, and then motivate and influence the broader organization into action. We seek a person to accelerate growth and establish our go-to-market strategies through our sales, partners, and marketing teams.