applications manager Redmond, WA
Microsoft
Full Time
Redmond, WA
162200 - 80900 USD ANNUAL Today
Job description
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of people around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
If you want to play a key role in the world’s fastest growing cloud business at the forefront of next-generation AI, this is your chance to join the Microsoft Cloud Communications Team. The communications team for Microsoft Dynamics 365 product portfolio is growing and looking to scale its product, thought leadership and cross-platform storytelling.
Dynamics 365 is a portfolio of intelligent enterprise applications designed to help employees across all business departments (from sales, customer service and marketing to finance, supply chain and operations) be more productive. With Dynamics 365 Copilot, employees can spend more time on the best parts of their job and reduce time spent on repetitive tasks, such as data entry, notetaking or searching for information. For customers, the result is a business optimized for growth, differentiation and employee satisfaction.
As the Communications Manager for Business Applications, we’re looking for you to bring a passion for technology and cloud services, a belief in our broader company mission, and an ability to positively influence perceptions. You enjoy finding and developing a great story, building relationships, collaborating with partners across the company, and working as part of a cohesive team. You are optimistic, willing to try new approaches, have the desire to learn and the resilience to press on. This is a high-visibility individual contributor with the opportunity for growth.
Responsibilities
Job responsibilities:
- Plan and execute product announcements for Dynamics 365 solution areas across the customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) categories
- Identify and shape proactive story ideas across Dynamics 365 product categories and related industry topics
- Manage customer and partner wins and success story news
- Engage with key stakeholders across marketing, engineering and communications to strategically time news and inform approach
- Integrate Dynamics 365 news in Microsoft flagship and relevant industry events
- Develop amplification plans for news across executive social media handles
Accountabilities
- Subject Matter Expertise: Ability to understand the CRM, ERP landscape and Dynamics 365 capabilities and differentiation. Build on or develop a deep understanding of the market landscape.
- Strategy: Contribute to and execute communications strategy that aligns with the broader business goals.
- Storytelling: Work with communications, marketing and engineering to source and tell stories that highlight technological breakthroughs and customer adoption.
- Project Management: Utilize your organizational skills during complex announcements and events, as well as your ability to prioritize and balance competing projects and priorities.
- Spokesperson Support: Work with others to enhance their storytelling skills and help them to focus on opportunities that yield a Return On Investment.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field AND 2+ years of Communications, Business or Technical Communications, Analyst Relations, and/or Product Marketing
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in CRM, ERP, Supply Chain Management.
- Candidates should have a proven track record of cross-group collaboration; growth mindset; business maturity, and diplomacy under pressure.
- Excellent communication, writing and project management skills.
- A driven, self-starter—with the ability to work independently and in ambiguous and changing environments.
- Relationship building and influence skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across organizational boundaries.
- Thrives in a fast-paced and changing environment and can adapt plans accordingly.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple business partners virtual teams, vendors, and agency partners.
- Growth mindset with proven track record for new, innovative approaches and smart risk taking.
Communications IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $80,900 - $162,200 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 $105,300 - $176,900 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
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
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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About Microsoft
CEO: Satya Nadella
Revenue: $10+ billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Year Founded: 1975
Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Redmond, WA
Satya Nadella
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1975
