Azure Product Marketing Business Insights Lead

Overview

Build the intelligence system that helps Azure Product Marketing make faster, data driven decisions. The Azure Product Marketing team needs a trusted, connected view of the business across customers, products, markets, launches, campaigns, and commercial outcomes. You will partner across product marketing, finance, business planning, sales, data engineering, data science, and marketing operations to establish a scalable intelligence platform and turn complex data into decision-ready insight.

As the Azure Product Marketing Business Insights Lead, you will set the strategy and operating model for the Azure PMM intelligence platform and lead Azure insights and analytics reporting. You will define a shared measurement framework, prioritize data products and dashboards, improve data quality and governance, and translate performance signals into recommendations that shape product marketing strategy, investments, go-to-market execution, and business reviews.

This opportunity will allow you to create a durable intelligence capability for Azure Product Marketing, deepen your expertise at the intersection of marketing strategy and data platforms, and directly influence portfolio, go-to-market, and investment decisions through actionable business insight.

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

• Deliver the vision, roadmap, governance, and adoption strategy for the Azure PMM intelligence platform.
• Build an intake and prioritization process for data and analytics demand.
• Create clear communications and governance frameworks to enable and empower PMM teams to succeed while also ensuring they're aware and leveraging central intelligence assets.
• Lead Azure insights and analytics reporting, including executive scorecards, recurring business reviews, portfolio deep dives, self-service dashboards, and concise narratives that distinguish signals, implications, recommended actions, and open questions.
• Partner with data engineering, data science, finance, business planning, sales, privacy, security, and source-system owners to integrate data, improve quality, document lineage, manage access, and establish trusted definitions.
• Create an insight-to-action operating model that converts analysis into decisions, named owners, follow-through, and measurable learning, while reducing duplicate reporting and inconsistent metrics.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary virtual or direct team, strengthen analytics fluency across PMM, and communicate complex findings clearly to both technical and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Work across the broader organization to understand and when applicable leverage other data assets while also sharing the PMM intelligence solutions when applicable.
• Take a hands-on role in leading and building the Azure PMM intelligence platform.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Masters Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4+ years experience in business OR Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years marketing or sales experience OR Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years direct people management experience or indirect people management experience, including leading virtual and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading analytics, business intelligence, measurement, or insights programs and translating complex data into clear recommendations for senior business and marketing stakeholders.
• Experience creating alignment across multiple stakeholders at varying levels in the organization.
• Experience leading a managed governed portfolio (report governance or similar) with a blended model of centralized and business unit (or similar team) solutions.
• Hands-on technical expertise with Azure, Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, pySpark, or similar technologies.
• Experience with change management and/or complex solution rollouts to multiple business units.

Product Marketing IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 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 $165,600 - $272,300 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.