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 lives around the world.

You can help us to achieve our mission. The Azure business is a critical strategic monetization and growth lever for the company. This business consists of growing Azure consumption in both our customer base and acquiring new customers across both Microsoft and Open Source technologies.

The Azure Go-To- Market Manager (GTMM) is responsible for leading the Azure Go-To-Market strategy for the field to deliver customer & partner success, resulting in revenue, growth and share outcomes for their Azure aligned Priorities. The GTMM must develop strong partnerships across marketing, partner, services and sales to lead and execute the priorities. Each Azure GTMM Leads The Field Business For Their Solution/motion And Has Overall Responsibilities For Enabling Each Area Teams' Success By - Lead the Azure business in alignment with other business owners; - Empower Customers to Migrate & Innovate apps to the cloud and enable them to build skills and govern their cloud journey; - Build and land growth plans to win and maximize the local market opportunity, based on the WW Azure priorities; - Drive business outcomes by executing local Azure Go-To-Market plan to exceed business targets; - Provide input on local integrated marketing plan development by providing business objectives to CMO IMMs; - Build a comprehensive event plan, including locally required events, for the fiscal year to harmonize with CMO.

The GTMM is required to have a strong understanding of their solution area and or motion, and a deep understanding of customer solutions and strategies and end-to-end market ecosystem. This role represents the relevant Azure solutions, within the subsidiary and is the subject matter expert, and is the market facing spokesperson. In addition, they must be able to articulate the local competitive landscape and develop local compete strategies and product differentiation by leveraging corporate and local research, partner insights and customer feedback.

Responsibilities Own and Land Your Propositions: - Plan and execute activity that promotes Azure services to drive revenue growth; lead key product/services moments/activities/releases. - Maintain product knowledge and evangelize the product internally and externally to press, enthusiasts, influencers, sales (for pre-sales and consumption driving) customer and partner scenarios. - Act as the voice of the field by ensuring timely updates/feedback to corporate on Azure Priority execution and performance in Area/Subsidiary.

- Orchestrate adoption and execution of relevant Azure specific sales plays to deliver ACR growth by leveraging MEI data, MSX- Content, and Seismic. G.