Sr. Marketing Manager- SMB Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Marketing
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 777253-74741
Division: Marketing

Senior Marketing Manager - US SMB Marketing

Location: Bellevue, WA

Are you a creative leader with broad public relations, marketing, and communication skills? Do you enjoy defining and telling stories that help customers and partners understand Microsoft products and strategies? Do you have a passion for creating communication strategies and driving execution of campaigns? If you answered “yes” to these questions, then you owe it to yourself to investigate this opportunity!

Market and Team Summary: The small and midsize (SMB) business customer segment represents one of the most important customer segments to the success of Microsoft and the entire IT industry. There are tens of millions of customers in this segment in the US, and effectively reaching and influencing them to purchase our products and services is a challenge and a huge opportunity. The US Small and Midsize Business Marketing Team’s mission is to enable SMBs to easily and at scale find, try, and buy Microsoft products directly online and indirectly through partners.

Role Summary: The US Small and Midsize Business Marketing team has an immediate opening for a Senior Marketing Manager who will define, execute and measure a Communications Plan designed to tell Microsoft’s story to Small and Midsize Businesses in the US. Because Microsoft’s people and executives are a key element of our story, this role will also define and drive internal and external executive (VP and CVP) communication plans, including “digital” and “social” activities.

Key Responsibilities include:

Define and Execute Microsoft’s overall US Small and Midsize Business PR Plan.

Drive campaigns across multiple channels including traditional media, digital, through-partner, and to-customer.

Define and track scorecard metrics to enable measurement of key PR campaigns.

Effectively lead integration with many teams including: WW Corp PR; US Partner Group; WW SMS&P; and key product groups.

Manage US SMB Marketing’s PR budget and agency resources and relationship.

Manage executive participation in external media interviews, speaking engagements, and digital platforms.

Manage internal communication strategies to ensure information is disseminated to the right audiences, through the right channels and at the right time.

Qualifications and Skills:

7+ years of public relations and/or marketing experience in a related corporate or agency environment.

Ability to foster strategic relationships with key industry press, analysts, and influencers.

Proven success in PR and/or marketing execution leading to consumption of message.

Proven ability as a collaborator across multiple groups on multi-faceted PR and Marketing activities.

A Versatile communicator able to deliver written/oral communications across organizations and to all levels of management in a professional and confidential manner.

Ability to understand/discuss a broad-range of technology and business issues such as: cloud computing; channel strategies; and the business value of technology; is a plus.

An undergraduate B.A. or B.S. degree is required. MBA preferred.

This position is based in Bellevue,WA. and may require travel up to 15% of the time. SALES:SMSPG

Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Cloud, Management, Manager, Marketing, Marketing Manager, Marketing MBA, MBA, PR, Technology

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Nat'l App Plat Marketing Lead Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Marketing
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 785664-75599
Division: Marketing

US EPG National Application Platform (IO) Marketing Lead Position:

The US Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) Marketing (US EPG Marketing) team is focused on enabling enterprise sales to

drive growth, increase share, and improve the Customer and Partner Experience (CPE).

This position is within the US EPG Marketing team reporting to the Director of the EPG Solutions and Partner Marketing

Strategy Team. In collaboration with the US National BMO Product Marketing, CMG, DPE, BPO, US EPG Sales, US

Services, and US Partner teams, the US EPG National Marketing Strategy Team ensures the success of field execution

through scalable marketing plans, process, tools, and relevant customer content.

As a core member of the US EPG National Marketing Strategy Team, the US EPG National IO Marketing Lead will lead

end-to-end marketing including planning, execution, and measurement for the US EPG Application Platform Business in

alignment with your US EPG National IO Sales Lead across Major and Corporate Account Managed (CAM-E) accounts.

You will be responsible for the strategy, definition, and execution success of your business. This will require analysis of

market trends, sales data, and understanding the customer experience. This role requires deep customer marketing

expertise including customer targeting strategy, market analysis and accountability for revenue and scorecard metrics. This

will require strong business and people leadership skills in a high visibility role that has a significant impact on Microsoft’s US

business and our overall customer satisfaction in the domestic market.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing and driving the end-to-end enterprise strategy and execution of US EPG National Optimization business sales

motions across One Microsoft ensuring they are better than the competition at what’s most important to Enterprise

customers.

- Exemplify World Class Marketing as the US EPG customer SME for your business area - leading groups on how to be

successful in reaching customers to exceed revenue and scorecard metrics in the enterprise segment. This will include

aligning with WW BG/EPG/CPM and the US BMO (product managers, DPE, CMG, and BPO), Sales, Partner, and Services

counterparts to align with strategies and integrate “One Microsoft” through the national Segment Alignment Workshop

process (SAW) to create the all up national priority campaigns and execution plans.

- Develop the national customer targeting data for your campaigns in conjunction with your field marketing teams. A

focus on gaining share from Oracle, you will work with the US BMO Product Managers and WW BGs to ensure relevant

customer facing conversation content is available.

- Landing the national plan through a strong and informed community across the US including the BG leads, Solution

Marketing Managers, and Partner Marketing Managers, Specialists, Technical Specialists, and Services Managers.

- Own the success of your respective field teams, providing guidance and coaching to execute according to the national

plan, according to the national engine and conversation model through the quality of the field Compass plans.

- Deliver strategic leadership for field marketing through marketing planning, value proposition guidance and customer

targeting data. Data analysis (using Microsoft’s business analytics tools ‘Customer Information Store’ - CIS) to transform key

customer data into valuable business insights for the field sales and marketing organization to identify strategic targets.

- Ensure the field marketers are strong and informed on all relevant Optimization business.

- Ensure the field marketers drive effective and efficient execution plans to drive optimum ROI and Marketing Plans

through Compass are accurate and aligned with SAW Priority Campaign guidance.

- Ensure the US Field and WW teams are working from a foundation of best practices: as strategic trusted advisor,

identify and share best practices, eliminate roadblocks.

- You will be responsible for the results of the campaign field execution for the scorecard metric results to the relevant

product managers and leadership teams.

- Lead monthly One Microsoft SAW business review meetings with your colleagues from sales, services, partner and

product marketing to present results of your field community execution and business insights based your analysis using GMO

reporting tools to review business metrics and apply adjustments to keep scorecard metrics green.

- Present monthly and quarterly business review to senior management for buy-in and status on a regular basis.

Requirements:

This position requires strong business strategy, leadership, analytical skills; and cross-team collaboration to integrate the

national US Sales, Partner, Services, Product Marketing, and US Field Marketing teams. This leadership is key to driving

growth, revenue, share, CPE, and overall scorecard performance.

The role requires a deep understanding of Microsoft’s enterprise customers, including their buying patterns and behaviors,

the business value of Microsoft’s capabilities, products and solutions, understanding of key competitors, the field

organization, strategic marketing planning, execution, and measurement, and Microsoft licensing. The ability to use impact

and influence to drive business outcomes is a must. The role has a significant impact on the US subsidiary business and

Microsoft’s overall enterprise marketing strategy.

This position is expected to engage directly with senior management and leadership roles across the business to drive

alignment and accountability to deliverables and results. Candidates should have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in IT,

experience in the enterprise segment and deep insight across sales, marketing and services functions; be familiar with CIO

challenges, and have solid knowledge of the market place. Minimum level to apply is L63.

Experience

Demonstrable skills in the following areas are critical:

- Business planning and development

- Project management

- Virtual team leadership

- Strategic leadership combined with strong ability to execute and drive for results

- Executive engagement and communication.

- Quantitative proficiency

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Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: BPO, Data, Data Analyst, Database, Field Marketing, Field Sales, Marketing, Operations, Oracle, Product Marketing, Project Manager, Sales, Technology

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Software Development Engineer, Senior-BING Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 773242-65946
Division: Online Services Division

Do you want to work on one of the most exciting and fast moving teams at Microsoft? Do you want to work on the largest scale service and most challenging one at Microsoft? Are you passionate about building a service that tens of millions of people interact with every day, all over the world, with superb quality, high performance and low cost? Do you want to pursue the cutting edge of computer science and turn them into product?

If so, Index Platform is the team for you. We are the search engine of Bing, and we provide the platform foundation for Bing and Online Service. Index Platform is a large distributed system to serve Search results at a scale of more than thousands of queries at a time, from thousands of servers, going through billions of documents, with relevance, in a matter of milliseconds. We’re building our search service as a platform that developers inside and outside of Microsoft can use to build rich applications. We are a high powered startup inside of Microsoft, working on technology and products that are critical to our company’s success and at the heart of the customer experience of the internet. You are in a smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottom-up, fast paced, highly technical environment. We ship every week and push out improvements almost daily. We do not have a whole lot of processes - you define your own process.

We’re looking for developers at all levels, to help us with some hard problems:

RUNTIME MONITORING AND SELF DIAGNOSTICS - With such a large and complex system, it is critical for us to find the right ways to measure all the metrics from different angles and provide effective visualization for the purposes of real time diagnostics and deep insights into the state of our services. Come help us build revolutionary diagnostic data mining infrastructure.

DISTRIBUTED SEARCH EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM - Working with relevance team, we’re building experimental infrastructure platform to make experiments faster, easier, and more effective, harnessing the computational resources of our production plant to do this at scale. This is key to providing the means of improving every aspect of the search engine algorithm. Come and help us build best experimental platform.

WEB SEARCH AGGREGATION PLATFORM - We process 100s of millions queries a day on 10s of thousands of servers. We need to distribute the query to the right data centers and the right machines, execute in a split second, and then aggregate all the responses. We need to handle load balancing, fault tolerance, deployments, index update, caching, cost optimization, etc all programmatically. This involves work on networking layer, disk layer, service layer and interact with hardware, Windows OS, applications and autopilot infrastructure. Come to help us build the next generation of Aggregation and Web Answer platform.

IMAGE AND VIDEO SEARCH PLATFORM - We apply the same serving stack to serve image and video searches. This is a very critical vertical to Bing which contributes 10% of traffic. In addition to generic scalability and performance challenges, we have many domain specific challenges. Come to help us build the world's best image and video search engine.

NEXT GEN SERVING ARCHITECTURE - We are revamping our index serving architecture for better cost efficiency. Come to help us build our next generation serving platform with 10x efficiency improvements on big indexes.

FASTEST SEARCH ENGINE - We are working on providing the fastest search engine. Come to help us build a search engine with 50ms response time.

Qualifications:

- Superb technical know-how, ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep in new focus areas

- Outstanding design skills and good understanding of the technology

- 5+ years’ experience of software development

- Like fast pace environment.

- Attention to details is the key

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Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Computer Science, Data Mining, Developer, Engineer, Engineering, Software Engineer, Technology

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Finance Manager, Sr. - US M&O Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Finance
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 786952-75762
Division: Finance

The US M&O Finance team is looking for a highly motivated individual with a passion for understanding Microsoft’s revenue trends and for driving key revenue analysis, insights and processes for the United States subsidiary. This role will provide a deep understanding of Revenue across all SubSegments, Products and Pricing Levels at Microsoft US and will give the opportunity to drive business insight for senior executives in the US Subsidiary.

Role Summary:

Revenue Rhythms: (Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Revenue Reviews, Weekly Forecast, communication with WW SMSG)

Business Impact (ad-hoc analysis on topics, such as renewals, expirations, Cloud impacts, other business drivers).

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the Revenue rhythms for the US Subsidiary, including weekly Revenue Reviews with the US Senior Leadership team, Monthly Financial reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews.

Work with the US Sub Business Groups (BGs: WWLD, MOD, STB, etc), and Segment finance Leads (EPG, PS, SMS&P, CCG) to ensure accurate financial understanding of the respective businesses.

Manage and be responsible for multiple processes, resolve cross-group misalignment, with a focus on constant process improvements.

Manage relationship with WW SMSG Finance through providing insight around US Subsidiary revenue performance.

Support MSNA President’s Office and CFO on revenue analytical needs.

Coordinate the completion of the Revenue Finance slides for the US MYR deck.

Lead US Sub cross-segment revenue business insight and analytical project.

Formulate financial conclusions and influence decision outcomes based on objective analysis.

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Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Finance, Financial, Management, Manager

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Software Development Engineer II-BING Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 765159-64795
Division: Online Services Division

Come write the software that runs some of the largest data centers in the world! The AutoPilot team in Bing is responsible for building the systems that turn the hundreds of thousands of servers in our data centers into a reliable platform that gives users around the world blink-of-an-eye access to our services.

By joining this team, you will gain marketable experience in service-oriented network architectures and datacenter networking at massive scale. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join us in designing, writing, and deploying distributed software that will continuously monitor the health of our network and the communications over it. Example challenges include: building architectures that collect information from network switches and servers, rapidly analyze them, and then orchestrate repair actions; improving network protocols like TCP for better performance in the data center; evaluating new switch features and performance.

The basic requirements are raw intelligence and demonstrated abilities to learn quickly, design efficiently, and write solid code. 3 years of SW engineering experience is expected. Previous experience with networking, distributed systems, and system-level programming a plus. Come talk to us to learn more!

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Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Data Center, Developer, Engineer, Engineering, Software Engineer, Technology

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