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Education Audience Marketing Director

Microsoft

Redmond, WA
Full Time
Director
131k-252k
about 2 months ago

Job Description

About the Role

Are you passionate about empowering schools, teachers, and students with AI technology and skilling? We're seeking an experienced Education Audience Marketing Director focused on driving integrated marketing for K12 schools and community colleges. As Education Audience Marketing Director, you will be responsible for developing and implementing to-customer and through-partner integrated marketing plans aligned to business strategy and priorities. You will collaborate with key stakeholders across commercial marketing, industry advisors, regional sales leadership (Operating Units), field enablement, business operations teams, and the Global Partner Solutions (GPS) organization to land marketing plays aligned to regional plans. Success in this role requires experience in digital marketing strategy and optimization, data-driven marketing and decision making, account-based marketing, and a track-record of leading cross functional teams, and influencing across the organization to drive business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Applies a deep understanding of business to drive alignment on priorities and influence campaign planning and execution decisions through internal and/or external collaboration.
  • Develops scalable and/or curated content and customer journeys to share relevant product stories that engage customers.
  • Drives plans and strategies for integrated marketing aligned to targeted business outcomes.
  • Aligns marketing tactics to marketing objectives (e.g., acquisition, nurture, re-engagement) and relevant metrics.
  • Leads and presents the development of a comprehensive digital channel strategy (e.g., Web, relationship marketing, social media, digital acquisition, SEO/SEM) and results in leadership.
  • Manages overall digital channel strategy, ensuring each channel's role is clearly laid out for each campaign, and targets are identified and met.
  • Owns, measures, delivers, and optimizes key metrics and reporting on marketing activities across channels and platforms.
  • Creates and leverages reports and analyses of customer metrics to identify opportunities to improve engagement by collaborating with engine owners.
  • Collaborates with GDC team and area stakeholders to align marketing plans to GDC strategy, capabilities, and engines.
  • Executes standardized, scalable, compliant, and efficient marketing execution by leveraging global capabilities, engines, and tools in partnership with Global Demand Center (GDC) stakeholders.
  • Contributes to the development of strategic responses to market strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends.
  • Oversees the analysis of KPIs for related products, programs, audiences, and engines to identify insights and advance business impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 5+ years integrated marketing, event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience marketing to the education sector/market.

Nice to Have

  • Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing or related experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 7+ years integrated marketing or related experience.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field
  • 5+ years of integrated marketing experience
  • Experience marketing to the education sector/market

Benefits & Perks

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

Working at Microsoft

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The company values a growth mindset, innovation to empower others, collaboration, respect, integrity, and accountability. Microsoft fosters a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 23, 2025
Job CategoryMarketing
Salary131k-252k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeRemote
ExperienceDirector

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Location

Redmond, WA

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