Overview

As businesses transform digitally, cyber security is increasingly important at all levels within our customer base. Microsoft Sentinel is an industry leader in security operations management and a platform for AI. The SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is an important tool to protect customers and keep them safe. The SIEM is evolving rapidly in the context of AI and the agentic SOC (Security Operations Center) will ultimately transform security and the roles within security operations in exciting ways so that security teams can focus on important tasks. One key outcome is the Microsoft Sentinel is evolving from just being a SIEM to a platform for agents including a datalake to collect all the organization’s security data. In this role you will lead product marketing team for Microsoft Sentinel.

In this role as Senior Director, Product Marketing - Microsoft Sentinel, you lead a high-performing, collaborative marketing team members are individually great at what they do and value positive team dynamic and know that diverse perspectives will help all of us learn, grow, and deliver better business outcomes. We embrace trying new things and learn and celebrate any outcome. Our team takes pride in our togetherness, and you will support and expand that dynamic. Each team member works with engineering teams to influence products and to bring to market innovation, tells stories through rich content creation, and has an eye on strategy looking left to right across field, partner, sales, competition, and engineering for opportunities to optimize the funnel for growth.

In this role, you will bring the team together around your vision, collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and sales, optimize the synergies between the component technologies as the product to provide customers with an integrated and consistent experience across the funnel. This is a big job in a competitive marketplace with a workload that is strategic for Microsoft and critical for customers.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Build your team members careers and bring together the Sentinel platform and SIEM story.
• Inspire excellence from your team members as you bring to market and plan the future of Microsoft Sentinel with input into business model, licensing, product design and more.
• Deliver product marketing content to CISOs and security practitioners including PowerPoint, website, infographics, demos, videos, blogs and more to land thought leadership and adoption in the individual categories of email, endpoint, and identity.
• Drive participation in key analyst deliverables such as the Forrester SIEM wave, and Gartner SIEM MQ as well as numerous regular engagements.
• Represent Sentinel in the modern security operations SOC scenario to enable customers, the field and marketing materials.
• Represent the SOC in the Security Copilot workstreams.
• Support the field sales process with the Modernize the SOC solution play, one of three mainstream sales plays, and ensure top field blockers are prioritized to be quickly addressed in content and product.
• Position Microsoft for success with customers in a market that includes strong competitors including legacy incumbents such as Splunk, now Cisco, and newcomers such as Google Chronicle.
• Own our competitive perspective and outcomes in partnership with the compete team.
• Build a culture that is consistent with our broader team culture with a focus on diversity, collaboration and particularly the value of team, as well as building your team members careers.

Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications

• Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in marketing commercial software to business users and IT OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in marketing commercial software to business users and IT OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 8+ years people management experience.
• Experience and a track record of success in product marketing or product management.
• Knowledge of how enterprises buy and use commercial applications.
• Knowledge of one or more Microsoft applications.
• Experience and proven capability to deliver world class marketing content, including value proposition, evidence, blogs, whitepapers & presentations for identified scenarios, products/features and segments/audiences.
• Ability to translate solutions understanding into a compelling story for customers’ that clearly articulates Microsoft’s strategy, benefits and differentiation when using Microsoft’s services
• Ability to analyze and diagnose complex product and business challenges, formulate solutions, and then motivate the broader organization to pragmatic action.

Product Marketing M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $155,800 - $277,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $202,400 - $303,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.