Senior Partner Marketing Manager

Microsoft develops intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions with partners to empower people and organizations to achieve more. This role leads the global marketing strategy, community engagement, and event activation for Managed Service Provider partners, translating Microsoft priorities into partner-ready narratives and programs. The position also drives cross-functional activation, partner readiness, customer acquisition, pipeline and revenue influence, and adoption of AI, security, cloud, and marketplace solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the global MSP partner marketing, community, and event strategy, defining priority audiences, messaging pillars, engagement moments, operating rhythm, and measurable outcomes
• Build and lead a scalable MSP engagement model across events, webinars, roundtables, digital communities, newsletters, and partner listening forums
• Translate Microsoft priorities into compelling partner-ready narratives, event content, community programming, activation guidance, and reusable toolkits
• Partner across regional GTM teams, PDMs, partner sales, SMB/CSP stakeholders, and content, events, communications, skilling, and operations teams to align priority MSP cohorts and deliver integrated activation
• Measure community and event impact against SME&C business outcomes, using partner insights and performance data to strengthen partner activation, customer acquisition, pipeline and revenue influence, and AI, security, cloud, and marketplace adoption

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 5+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience in partner marketing, channel marketing, community engagement, event marketing, digital marketing, communications, product marketing, or a related marketing program role
• Demonstrated ability to develop marketing strategies and execute cross-functional programs with clear timelines, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes
• Experience designing and delivering partner or customer events, community programs, webinars, roundtables, or integrated engagement motions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear partner-ready messaging, content, and event narratives
• Experience working with partner, sales, field, community, or ecosystem stakeholders to gather input, align priorities, and drive execution in a highly matrixed environment
• Analytical and operational discipline to track engagement, synthesize feedback, manage integrated calendars and deliverables, and improve programs based on data and partner insights
• Ability to build scalable global engagement models that balance global consistency, regional relevance, and partner-segment specificity
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort operating across senior leaders, regional and field teams, and partner-facing groups; able to create structure and durable mechanisms in an evolving or ambiguous motion
• Occasional international/domestic travel required to support partner engagement
• Master's Degree in Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years sales, marketing, technology-based, or business development experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 6+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience
• Experience with MSP, CSP, SMB, marketplace, managed services, security, Copilot, AI, or Microsoft partner ecosystem motions is preferred