Marketing Manager

Join us to make Windows 10 the best Windows ever. You have a passion for technology, you’re a self-motivated ambitious marketer and you thrive working in a fast paced, frontline, dynamic business. Good news! We’re a perfect match for each other.

The Windows Marketing Organization is searching for a Social Marketing Manager to support the Windows business.   Our team is at the center of driving a new revolution for Windows - to bring together these assets, to create new experiences and business opportunities. It’s a unique time to be at Windows.

You’ll need to have very strong collaboration skills, attention to details and organizational agility. You’ll be excited by the task of driving a global business and not daunted by the fast pace and continual evolution. You’ll be a relationship builder with the ability to make connections across work streams and provide stellar project management.

This is not a role for someone that wants to come along for the ride, it’s an opportunity to drive impact. Sound like a match for you? If it does, then don’t procrastinate- opportunities like these don’t come along often.

Key responsibilities include:

Drive social strategy for the Windows brand aligned to the marketing priorities.

Manage all daily social content on active channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and maintain editorial calendar.

Monitor social platforms for trends, new capabilities and new channel opportunities.

Manage agency/creative team, provide briefs and give strategic direction on all content.

Work with ATL/campaigns team on all social/digital executions and approve for owned social channels.

Collaborate with Windows.com and CRM managers to align creative, messaging, and campaigns across Windows digital properties

Collaborate across teams to align to all official messaging, apps/OEM/retail and others

Communicate with regional field teams managing social presence, ensure alignment on key brand

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Manage Customer Insight Center (CIC) community management team. Includes maintaining brand messaging/tone of voice, promoting team & business priorities via 1:1 conversations (campaigns, device, etc.), weekly summaries and monthly reporting for all reactive conversations, flagging & monitoring of any potential PR issues, serve as frontline communications of the brand to our customers, manage social playbook

Monthly reporting for all social channels - includes broadcast performance, web conversions, engagement and CTR, social listening of trends/share of voice, reactive response rate

Meet with social stakeholders x-company to share best practices, promote BG priorities as appropriate, share learnings

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER

Content Evangelist

Make the Marketing team at Microsoft Advertising part of your career story!

Are you passionate about digital advertising? Do you have deep experience in developing content that supports an evolving brand story and the products that are part of that story? If so, you might be the perfect fit for the Microsoft Advertising business. We are looking for a Content Evangelist who can turn words on paper into action and experiences that turn heads and wow our customers and the industry.

The Content Evangelist will be a member of the Brand Strategy team and is responsible for communicating the value and effectiveness of our display advertising portfolio to markets across the world.   Your mission is to light up our brand by creating stories about our portfolio and products that demonstrate our advertising excellence, creativity, relevance to marketers and technological innovation.   You would work closely with our product marketing and brand team to create these scenarios, stories and product demos.   Then you would take the stories on the road -- with evangelism to influential internal partners, the Advertising and Online Trade Marketing Partners, Sales teams and key thought leaders throughout the world-wide markets. Your ultimate goal?   You become the go-to, trusted advisor and advocate for Microsoft Advertising sales teams because you create the sizzle that showcases Microsoft’s powerful position in the display marketplace.  

The ideal candidate will be able to:

  Quickly grasp complex concepts and rapidly translate them into compelling, customer-facing content

  Get the right people in the room, land the plan, and churn out high-quality content at the speed of light

  Juggle multiple projects with multiple content deliverables

  Take a vague request and hit the mark on the first try by following up with smart questions

  Work effectively and happily in a fast-paced environment and within a high-performing team.

  Leverage data to validate content and to effectively target and understand the audience

  Knock down blockers with finesse

  Be constantly looking for ways to scale your work

  Build great relationships with internal partners

  Approach work with professionalism, humor and a positive attitude

Core Responsibilities:

  Develop ad product and consumer product scenarios that demonstrate excellence, innovation, creativity and relevance.

  Create persuasive, passionate, data-validated, high impact, high quality presentations

  Prepare executives to speak/demo at Industry Conferences, client meetings and events

  Write expert content

  Hire and manage technical support vendors to develop technology demos and scenarios; manage their deliverables

  Build and maintain high-quality relationships with industry leaders and leadership at across the ad industry.

  Be a consultative partner to Microsoft Advertising account teams, including AEs, Global Account Directors, and District Managers, by engaging on a regular basis to educate, provide updates, align on account plans, identify opportunities to drive revenue, and evangelize our unique value prop in the marketplace.

Requirements:

  Expert level knowledge of online media and advertising; including minimum 8-10 years of relevant media sales, service, marketing, or program management experience related to the advertising industry

  Minimum 3 years marketing or related advertising experience (5+ years of experience preferred)

  Display advertising experience preferred, Search advertising experience a plus

  Proven ability to engage within the advertising marketing community through expert written content and track record of building online relationships

  Positive, can-do spirit and passion for digital marketing, search and technology

  Expert public speaking capability, able to represent Microsoft Advertising internally and externally

  Experience managing agencies or vendors

  Experience establishing and nurturing mid to senior-level, long term relationships with digital marketing executives and community thought leaders

  Ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt quickly to new business directions and goals

  Proven track record of exceptional performance, high productivity and meeting deadlines

  Expert skills in PowerPoint and knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications. Knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft Sway and PowerPoint Mix preferred.

  Experience in creative direction for visual and written content, including video, a plus

  Ability to create demo mock-ups or flow-diagrams a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Subsidiary Product Marketing Manager - C&E

Want to be a part of one of the most exciting, fastest-growing, businesses in the company?   We are on the mission of “Winning the Infrastructure” in a Cloud-first world. . This is going to be an incredible year for customers, partners, and the industry as we reshape the industry with SQL, Windows Server, and Azure. Help us shape the server infrastructure landscape for small and medium businesses (SMB) including our Distributor/Value Added Resellers (Distributors /Value Added Resellers), as well as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The SMB Lead is responsible for orchestrating key strategies across sales, marketing, partner and or services stakeholders to grow our dynamic SMB business in the US Subsidiary. This role will own planning and achieving revenue targets for the SMB business across SQL Server Enterprise Edition, SQL Server Standard, Power BI and DB Workloads in Azure for the SMB market. Success requires leadership and collaboration across a variety of stakeholders, including: US Subsidiary management (M&O, Partner), field and the WW C+E Business Group.

If you do your best work in a dynamic business environment, want to get closer to customers and partners, or to gain experience in a role that spans across marketing, sales and the partner channel then we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

•      Define, lead, and execute business plans and priorities through excellent business planning, scorecard and ROB management for SQL Server in SMB

•      Execute plans to drive awareness and Hoster-generated revenue through the SMB Channel

•      Define and execute digital SMB campaigns that drive awareness, consideration and revenue leveraging self-service business models.

•      Lead strong marketing strategy, partner and sales enablement within the US subsidiary and US market via customer or partner targeting, landing the product value proposition, messaging, compete, positioning, and GTM approach..

•      Work with WW C&E BG to land SMB business priorities, readiness and campaigns across customers and partners that drive to scorecard achievement.

•      Land digital/telemarketing campaign to increase net-new SMB customers.

•      Lead excellence in execution across the customer journey as the orchestration point across the US subsidiary for all C+E products in SMB

•      Be a product evangelist by storytelling through customer and partner engagements

•      Gather and analyze business insights through events, customer and partner engagements or visits, and EBCs to improve financial performance.

Key Qualifications:

•      A highly-motivated, results-driven, strategic thinker with robust analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of integrated marketing strategies and execution.

•      Candidates should have a demonstrated track record of success in product management, sales, marketing, business or program management.

•      Segment (SMB) or Subsidiary knowledge preferred.

•      Working knowledge of the C+E product portfolio.

•      Audience experience an asset including IT Pro, BDM or Partner.

•      Experience profitably growing revenue in the SMB community, as asset.

•      The ability to work independently in ambiguous and changing environments, along with exceptional listening and collaboration skills

•      Strong communication skills; must thrive working across organizational and cultural boundaries

•      5+ years’ experience in consulting, marketing, strategic planning, financial or business analysis.

•      BA or BS required in marketing, math, economics, engineering or a related discipline. MBA strongly preferred.

•      Diversity candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Some travel required.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Web Application Developer - Knowledge Marketing, LLC. - Plymouth, MN

Position Summary
This position will be responsible for participating in building digital marketing software applications mostly with C# using MS SQL Server. Only applicants with 2+ yrs. experience in web application development and willingness to work in the Twin Cities should apply.

Responsibilities:
• Design, develop and maintain web based business applications in a Microsoft .Net 4.0 & above environment using C#.
• Assist in debugging, staging, testing, and deploying of web based applications and native client applications.
• Ability to write SQL queries for MS SQL 2005 server.
• Flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing business environment which will include learning new technologies in the midst of deploying said technology.
Qualifications:
• You’ll be required to demonstrate and 2+ years direct working experience in .Net 4.0 and above, C#, SQL, MS SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008), Stored Procedures, Windows server 2003, PHP, HTML, CSS.
• Position requires you to be located at our Plymouth, MN headquarters.
• Candidate must possess great problem solving skills, the ability to work in an energetic and fast paced environment, the ability to learn a variety of operating systems, development environments, and programming languages – i.e. someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast.
• Looks forward to working with A-players.
• Able to work independently but also organize plans to line up with company goals while being able to account for time spent on projects.
• Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
• Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, ethical, and low-maintenance.
• The ability to identify business requirements and translate them into a working application.
Core Values:
• Displays passion for what you do and a drive to continuously improve.
• Don’t just meet customer expectations, go the extra step to exceed it.
• Relentless commitment to win.
• Displays personal and professional integrity.
• Be positive, enthusiastic and accountable.
Knowledge Marketing
Knowledge Marketing is a technology firm in Plymouth, Minnesota that transforms how businesses reach their customers with marketing communications. We’re a four-time INC 5000 winner as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Knowledge Marketing makes other companies better at what they do as we provide them with our highly desirable services and technology.

What We Do
Knowledge Marketing provides business intelligence on complex marketing information by integrating directly with customer data across their disparate data sources. We build and maintain proprietary data integration, data consolidation, and data consensus technology that produces customer and industry specific data warehouses. Then, we enable our customers to intelligently mine all their data so that they can dynamically create cutting-edge audience segmentations for marketing purposes. This provides our customers with significant competitive advantages over others across their industries. We help businesses succeed.

Why We’re Hiring
Knowledge Marketing is in a rapid growth phase. We need additional talent to maintain our competitive advantages and continue high levels of client satisfaction. The marketplace we serve is in a state of technological evolution and we’re paving the way forward as an industry leader. We’re ahead of our competition and know how to keep it that way. Your skill is wanted as we continue to move forward.

We offer a casual and fun business environment, competitive pay, good benefits, and diverse opportunities for professional development. Only candidates that meet qualifications will be considered. Interested candidates should email their resume directly to joe.benson@TeamKM.com

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Senior Marketing Manager A&O

Microsoft Advertising – Bing Ads

SMB Global Marketing Communications Manager

Location: Seattle

Make Microsoft Bing Advertising part of your career story!

Are you an experienced marketing communications manager with an interest in search advertising and online marketing? Would you like to impact the small-to-mid-market customer experience, and enable Microsoft to reach billions in global advertising revenue with the Yahoo! Bing Network?  

The Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) Marketing team in Bing is seeking a global marketing communications manager with strong experience partnering with engineering and/or product groups to support GTM activities for Bing Ads and Yahoo! Bing Network with the SMB segment. The Global Marketing Communications Manager is responsible for developing and executing on the strategy for driving awareness and adoption Bing Ads features. The position will be responsible for GTM activities for new and existing products and features. Planning and executing internal comms to enable Sales, Service and Support teams and marketing channel owners to sell product enhancements to Bing Ads customers. The position will serve as the strategy and execution lead for internal and external communications to drive product awareness and adoption. Examples of deliverables will include – product adoption driving campaigns, service campaigns, sales collateral, one sheets, customer comms, slides, FAQs.

Key Responsibilities:

•      Overseeing global SMB Marketing Communication   to support GTM activities for Bing Ads product updates.

o      Product update and feature release communications for a product on continuous release cadence.

o      Be an expert on Bing Ads and competitive products and also on Bing Ads customer profiles to be able to map features to different customer segments.

o      Create materials such as GTM Newsletter, presentation in team meetings, time zone calls to keep rest of marketing and other partners informed on product updates to enable them to leverage their channels for Bing Ads update promotion.

o      Develop the strategy for global awareness and adoption of new features and work with rest of the global and regional SMB marketing, BG Marketing, Sales and Support partners to execute on that strategy.

o      Partnership and coordination with engineering to get an understanding of product upgrade.

o      Partnership and coordination with BG Marketing for value prop and messaging for each product update

o      Partnership and coordination with BG Channel team on product priorities and adoption goals.

o      Participation in Sales and Service team meetings and All Hands

o      Participation in forums and v-teams that influence product quality and drive feature asks to engineering.

•      Launching feature pilots and driving feature adoption:

o      Coordination with engineering, BG, sales and support to launch pilots of key features. Includes developing pilot invitation communications such as emails, collaterals like one sheets, slides and FAQs to get customer participation and feedback on new features before those launch broadly to all customers.

o      Develop strategy and execution to drive adoption of priority features. Channels may include – webinar, emails, social, web, events, sales team.

o      Partnership with regional marketing managers to provide GTM resources for all markets.

Requirements:

•      Minimum 6 years of experience with search marketing or online advertising (8+ preferred)

•      BA/BS degree from an accredited college/university

•      Minimum 3 years of Product Marketing and GTM experience required

•      Strong analytical and insights development skills

•      Ability to adapt quickly and manage changing and tight deadlines

•      Experience strategizing, planning and implementing integrated marketing communications programs

•      Strong project management skills across global teams

•      Ability to drive results through multiple cross-group layers

•      Strong reading/writing/speaking skills in English

•      Vendor/agency and budget management experience

•      Experience in working with localization vendors a plus

This job description details the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Marketing & Communications Officer

Job Title:*Marketing and Communications Officer*NairoBits Trust is a youth based organization that uses ICT multimedia creatively to improve the lives of less privileged youth from the non-formal settlements. This target population accounts for 60% of the total estimated population of 7 million in Kenya who are underprivileged in terms of the basic human needs including access to education, with 50% to 70% of them living below the poverty line. Category ICT Training Region Nairobi-Kenya Contract Volunteer-Full-Time/Part-time(or what is applicable)for foreigners Duration Not less than 6 months Salary No pay Job Description NairoBits Trust is a youth based organization that uses ICT multimedia creatively to improve the lives of less privileged children and youth from the non-formal settlement. This target population accounts for 60% of the total estimated population of 7 million in Kenya who are underprivileged in terms of the basic human needs including access to education, with 50% to 70% of them living below the poverty line.The Trust envisages a situation where 70% of the urban informal settlement youths can access Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills that would improve their chances of getting employment as well as increase their ability to enter the business market. NairoBits equips the youth with knowledge in Web Design, IT skills, life skills, Creative Multimedia, and Entrepreneurship to improve their opportunities in employment and/or entrepreneurship. The Trust develops the youth’s character by inculcating critical elements of personal confidence, self-esteem, and general life skills. NairoBits’ trained youth have been able to secure employment in both formal and informal sectors and the success rate of employment is at 70%. The NairoBits program has had positive impact on the target group and this has generated confidence among the stakeholders in the ICT sector. The program has particularly attracted attention from many partners who wish to scale up the program to reach more vulnerable youths and/or replicate the program to other areas in the region.• Develop and implement a strategic marketing plan that will advance NairoBits’s brand, broaden awareness of its programs and grow funding support.
• Manage the development and distribution of all print and electronic collateral, including newsletters, the annual report and event invitations.
• Develop and guide NairoBits’s online strategy, including its website and social media. Work closely with staff and graphic designer to write and design content.
• Collaborate with trainers and NairoBit’s partners to develop compelling stories that convey how donors’ contributions are being used on the ground.
• Ensure consistent and effective communication of NairoBits’s brand and positioning across all channels.
• Develop and manage a media strategy nationally to build awareness and establish NairoBits as a thought leader.
• Develop resources to help NairoBits’s partners assess and improve their own marketing programs.
• Build relationships with NairoBits’s donors to inform them about marketing programs and encourage their support.
• Develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of marketing initiatives and adaptively manage their design.
Qualifications:
• 5 - 10 years of marketing/communications experience, preferably including experience in a marketing leadership role within a nonprofit organization.
• Demonstrated passion for ICT.
• A strong track record as an implementer who thrives on managing a variety of initiatives concurrently.
• Demonstrated experience in social media as well as print and electronic communications.
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to transform information into compelling messages.
• Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Photoshop and other design tools with be a plus.
• Highly collaborative style and strong interpersonal skills.
• Strategic and creative, but very pragmatic.
• Self-starter, able to work independently, and entrepreneurial.
• An analytical orientation and commitment to testing and measuring effectiveness of programs.Education -Minimum Undergraduate University Degree in Business(marketing or Administration),Communication,International Relations or any other related disciplineLanguage:Able to effectively communicate in EnglishSwahili speaking is an added advantageSend a Cover letter and a CV to the:

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