Go to Market Manager, AI Business Solutions

Overview

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.

SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.

We are looking to hire a Go to Market Manager, AI Business Solutions to join our Go-to-Market (GTM) team and to play an essential role in translating Microsoft’s Commercial Strategy to a local execution plan and driving operational excellence to achieve the greatest results possible for our Ai Business Solution Go to Market Team. In this role, you will drive worldwide insights and execution excellence, bringing strategy and priorities to life by accelerating the pace of transformation and enabling Microsoft to deliver business impact at scale with a sharp focus on AI Workforce especially focused on COWORK as well as the consumption new business around tokens/credits. Yet understanding different models/partners/competitors such as Anthropic, OAI, Deep seek, others.

This role requires someone who thrives leading a virtual team, acts as a thought leader, develops marketing strategy that aligns to our business goals, tracking success criteria and performance metrics. You will work with emergent technology, excel at creating alignment and action across teams, moving roadblocks and simplify complex concepts, truly lives for big challenges, and is not afraid to take thoughtful risks working in deep partnership with the field, Corp, and cross-functional marketing team.

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

• You be a primary product spokesperson and product evangelist for the business as a whole, inclusive of products within the Product Manager-owned portfolio and leverage product, industry, market and competitive knowledge as well as technical expertise to develop localized competitive strategy, position the value proposition and tailor messaging to both internal (e.g., sales and marketing readiness) and external audiences (e.g., press, analysts, partners, user community, customers).
• You will build and drive business strategy and track the efficacy of plans for the line(s) of business to drive sustainable growth within and beyond the boundaries of the fiscal year.
• You will create and orchestrate strategic go-to-market (GTM) plans for assigned line(s) of business across sales, marketing, consulting, customer success and partner functions, supporting One-Microsoft, cross-functional execution as appropriate and you will collaborate with global channel team (GCPS) to guide and support the execution of programs to recruit and enable partners to achieve target capacity and quality.
• You will partner with sales to land field enablement accountability and serve as an orchestrator between the business and the areas/subsidiaries to develop and land sales programs along with partnering with Finance and Product Marketing Manager (PMM) teams to ensure team is aligned with business results.
• You will support the creation and pursuit of white-space growth opportunities across products/services and leverage knowledge of revenue, share targets and the area/subsidiary's capabilities in order to develop strategies that maximize performance across products/services.
• You will partner with engineering to proactively drive capacity forecasting and leverage competitive knowledge to shape local capacity and service forecasts as you liaise with sales teams to provide coaching and support pipeline and sales enablement.
• You will drive GTM strategy and land growth plans (e.g., revenue, usage, customer health). Develop competitive strategies to drive target market share gains and actively manage relevant stakeholders to drive the local product marketing growth strategy.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio and driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization.
• 5+ years of experience or knowledge in ANY of the following Workforce technologies: Microsoft 365, Copilot, Copilot Chat, and Agents.

Field 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.

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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.