Yes, Microsoft is currently hiring remote workers, including roles in web marketing. One of the positions they are offering is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager, which is open to remote work.
With a full-time workforce of 228,000 people around the globe, Microsoft is always looking for more skilled experts. This time, they actually need specialists in web marketing. This role involves working on strategies to drive web and mobile marketing efforts, particularly for Microsoft’s 365 and Copilot Pro subscriptions.
The iconic software development company is offering senior web marketing manager positions, with a very attractive yearly salary.
The salary range for these positions can vary, with some reaching up to $220,000 per year, depending on the role and location.
What kind of senior product marketing manager are they looking for? According to their LinkedIn job offering, the company prefers managers who are “dynamic, innovative and experienced”. Great qualities that are easily achievable, specially since the salary reaches up to $220,000 per year. [Who wouldn’t be dynamic with that salary figure?]
“This role offers a unique opportunity to impact a business that provides customers with AI-powered business applications, transforming the way they work and innovate,” stated Microsoft recruiters in the job description on the online employment platform.
Can you work for Microsoft fully remote?
Microsoft’s central headquarters are based in Redmond, Washington, USA. While the majority of the company’s key operations happens here, its workforce does work remotely.
How, you say? Well, ever since 2020, Microsoft has integrated cloud-based tools like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to create fluidity across remote and in-office workers.
In fact, 97% of Microsoft’s internal applications and services are cloud-based. The COVID-19 pandemic may have been a tought period for the economy (and global population, of course) , but it made tech companies invest in remote work sources.
Thanks to Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking, all its workers can easily access their corporate resources from the comfort of their home office –or living room sofa!– while maintaining their cybersecurity protocols.
What do you need to work as a Marketing Manager at Microsoft?
As one of the largest companies on the planet, Microsoft is quite demanding in the employee hiring process. If you want to work for the company as a senior product marketing manager, these are the requirements you should meet:
- Experience: A strong background in digital and web marketing is required. Applicant must have created other strategic marketing campaigns earlier in their career. You need to be able to capture the attention of customers. Leadership skills in the sales department would be appreciated.
- Soft skills: High levels of communication and collaboration are required, as the senior manager will be working with teams from different departments (product, design and development). In addition, they must be experts in data analysis.
- Present key information and updates to stakeholders, ensuring that business, operational and customer objectives are met.
- Product and client alignment: a senior marketing manager will need to make sure with business objectives and customer needs meet in a middle ground.
- Customer reading: this role mus be able to interpret performance data and analyse customer feedback. After all, this position needs to refine and improve the customer experience in order to drive the best sales results.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or related field required, plus more than three years of proved marketing experience.
In fact, having a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications will rise you to the first line of job applicants.
Other degrees in related field with 3+ years in integrated marketing, business planning, marketing operations or related work experience are also recommended.
A Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft is responsible for developing and executing marketing strategies to drive the success of a specific product or group of products. Their role focuses on aligning product messaging with customer needs, increasing product adoption, and driving revenue growth.
If you find the position (and salary!) tempting enough, head to Microsoft careers site and take a look. Who knows, you might babe working for the titan software company by next year, and all from the comfort of your own home!
Microsoft Recruitment (October 2024): Remote Workers From Anywhere in the World