Marketing Technologist – Events

Are you an event focused marketing technologist with expertise in implementing and working with the latest and greatest marketing automation technologies to drive revenue? Do you live for collaboration with other passionate, high-performing folks in a hybrid team? Do you have hands on experience and knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing – Events Management Center and Marketo? If you’re obsessed with marketing technology, live and breathe marketing architecture, and if bringing marketing campaigns and Events to life energizes you, this Marketing Technologist – Events role may be the right one for you.

Microsoft’s Global Demand Center (GDC) is responsible for driving scaled marketing and sales capabilities, leveraging cutting-edge technology, and innovating marketing & sales practices to deliver billions of dollars a year globally for all our commercial business solutions (Applications & Infrastructure, Business Applications, Data & AI, and Modern Work & Security). Our marketing technology stack supports all our commercial products, 1,000s of marketers, billions of dollars in spend, billions of dollars in revenue for sales, 40+ languages, over 10,000 digital and in person events, and tens of thousands of sellers.

We are looking for a seasoned marketing technologist to join our Event Operations team. This is a mission-critical role with substantial scope, complexity, executive visibility, and has a large opportunity for impact. In this role, you’ll work with a high-visibility, top-notch team of pros across multiple teams and disciplines to define, deliver, and streamline global standards for transformative marketing events at Microsoft. You’ll be a critical part of a high-profile, long-term global initiative, working with the latest digital marketing technologies. If you’re ready to help create the future of marketing at Microsoft, this is the team for you.

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. 

You’ll be responsible for:

• Making key marketing technology initiatives real, end-to-end, with a cross-organization virtual team; being highly cooperative and confident in driving from conception to global execution to support global strategy
• Owning the technical events ecosystem and working in Dynamics 365 Marketing to develop event assets, templates, and automation
• Documenting business and functional requirements, designing a technical solution, defining the operating model and procedures to execute, training and supporting users
• Evaluating marketing technology, identifying the latest and greatest, and bringing components to life together in real-world use at scale on the marketing automation platform (MAP)
• Understanding intricate business and technical requirements and constraints; leading and driving the effort to translate those requirements into strategic marketing solutions
• Collaborating deeply across diverse teams and disciplines
• Consulting on complex usage of the MAP
• Supporting the global rollout and daily operations for Microsoft’s marketing automation platform, including testing, troubleshooting, and support
• Documenting key MAP processes and procedures as they develop and evolve
• Participating in team triage and planning sessions
• Helping to ramp up, train, support, and mentor marketing technologists around the company
• Staying up to date on trends and technology in the technical marketing landscape

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years marketing operations, program management, project management, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience working with Marketing Technology (i.e. Marketo, Adobe, Dynamics 365, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years marketing operations, program management, project management, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) technology/process improvement experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Dynamics 365 Marketing and using Marketo
• Ambitious self-starter, eager to dive right in and optimize the platform
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated expert skills in troubleshooting, analysis, and logic
• Passion to improve process, streamline technology, and improve performance
• Deep project management and organization skills
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, ability to use Visio for process diagramming
• Demonstrated skills in some form of technology (ie. coding / database technology etc)
• Experience in a B2B marketing role focused on running marketing campaigns and demand generation
• Expert hands-on experience in Dynamics 365 Marketing – Events Management Center
• Hands-on experience in a technical marketing role using Marketo
• Demonstrated skills in some form of technology (ie. web / coding / database technology, etc.)

Marketing Technology 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.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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