Growth Channel Incubation & Product Strategy Director

Role Overview

As the Growth Channel Incubation & Product Strategy Director, you will identify, shape, and prove the next generation of growth capabilities across Microsoft product surfaces. You will work at the intersection of product strategy, engineering, marketing, customer experience, and business growth to determine where new product-led growth opportunities exist and what Microsoft must build to realize them.

What You Will Do

Define the next growth opportunities, create product-led growth strategy, influence product and engineering roadmaps, lead incubation from concept to proof, drive evidence-based investment decisions, build reusable capabilities, establish capability handoffs, shape the external and internal point of view, and lead through influence.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires experience developing and influencing product, platform, channel, or customer-experience strategy in partnership with product and engineering teams, taking ambiguous, net-new opportunities from problem definition through hypothesis, pilot, measurement, and a scale, iterate, or stop recommendation, leading complex cross-functional initiatives across organizational boundaries, and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field
• 5+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience
• Experience developing and influencing product, platform, channel, or customer-experience strategy in partnership with product and engineering teams
• Experience taking ambiguous, net-new opportunities from problem definition through hypothesis, pilot, measurement, and a scale, iterate, or stop recommendation
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across organizational boundaries and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Experience translating customer, business, and performance insights into clear product or capability requirements and executive-level recommendations
• Executive communication skills, including the ability to create a compelling vision, simplify complex choices, and build support ahead of delivery
• Experience with product-led growth, lifecycle growth, growth experimentation, in-product engagement, or digital platform ecosystems
• Experience partnering with engineering, product management, design, data science, privacy, legal, and marketing teams to launch new capabilities
• Understanding of experimentation design, product telemetry, audience signals, measurement frameworks, and growth economics
• Experience building incubation frameworks, capability roadmaps, operating models, or playbooks that enable successful pilots to scale
• Demonstrated ability to identify emerging opportunities, develop an original point of view, and convert strategy into funded, executable work

Benefits

• Benefits and other compensation
• Pay information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay