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Director of Communications – Copilot

Mountain View, United States

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Job Number

1970324837016649-en-1

Overview

We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. A small, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. We run lean, obsess about users, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. Communications is vital. We have wide and diverse audiences, both internally and externally. We need to paint a powerful portrait of the future and clearly lay out a roadmap for getting there. How we explain our products helps define them. How we explain our strategies and priorities motivates our team and enables them to run together. 

As a Communications Director for Copilot, you will source draft, and edit presentations, email updates white papers, and other materials on behalf of the Copilot leadership team, collating inputs and creating deliverables. These will be persuasive, punchy, interesting, and accurate, often drafted and completed in situations where speed and an ability to operate amidst ambiguity and uncertainty are essential. This opportunity will allow you to work on messaging at the cutting-edge of consumer AI, telling stories, enabling teams, and making arguments. You will work closely with other Communications Directors across Microsoft AI to ensure alignment, as well as marketing. Pro-active, creative, and flexible, your default is a can-do attitude to any challenge. 

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. 
 
By applying to this U.S. Mountain View, CA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco area and in office 3 days a week.


Responsibilities: 
  • Craft high-quality deliverables (PowerPoint/Figma presentations, whitepapers, organizational updates, and emails) that synthesize and communicate the work of the organization with an inspiring narrative.  
  • Proactively track, and deliver towards, the content calendar and events/program schedule that you will drive, for upcoming deadlines and milestones.   
  • Shape messaging to seamlessly align with the leader’s communication style, ensuring clarity, authenticity, and strategic impact. 
  • Collaborate across Copilot teams to develop and drive story telling opportunities using data and insights. You will also develop and create ideas for collateral materials for use in a range of initiatives and events.  
  • Use expertise to lead and influence teams on determining format, story, and narrative arc to tell the story in the most compelling and authentic manner to the target audience. 
  • Outline and craft deliverables for vision memos, materials for org-wide All Hands, and key customer engagement, leveraging internal and external resources as needed.   
  • Lead, own, and manage agency / designer budget and relationships as required.   
  • Monitor and analyze the impact of messaging for a given issue, then create responses as needed across internal / or external channels.  
  • Align with the Microsoft AI communications team, with an in-depth understanding of what is happening across the organization.  
  • Embody our Cultureand Values.     


Qualifications: 

Required Qualifications: 
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management,
OR related experience


Preferred Qualifications
  • Master’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or related experience
OR
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 10+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or related experience


Communications 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.
  
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   
  
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