AI Intake & Platform Strategy Director
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs the AI Intake & Platform Strategy Director you will have a dual-mandate, starting with the deep strategic understanding and direction-setting of our Azure AI portfolio to identify, prioritize, and close strategic gaps: consulting with marketing, business planning, business development, and others to and enhance our product positioning. This is a highly collaborative role demanding creation of decision-documents that win hearts and budgets for our key stakeholders. You will also drive the operating model for how our Marketing team itself uses AI-defining playbooks, upskilling, tooling, and meeting rhythms that boost velocity and reduce toil. In this AI enablement role, you will be expected to develop a deep understanding of the portfolio and support customers and internal teams in effectively leveraging its capabilities. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesRegularly review messaging, Marketplace Partner Frameworks (MPFs), and demo assets across the Azure AI stack for gaps and strategic improvements, coordinating with cross-functional and primary DRIs in the organization on business strategy.Participate in and consult on the end-to-end solution play alignment for Azure AI for Microsoft's semi-annual go to market strategy motions.Lead cross-functional launch squads (Product, Engineering, Brand, Field, Business Planning) to land strategic features or products of strategic importance to the portfolio.Define "AI-powered marketing" best practices and enable the team as a primary role function; pilot workflows that embed Copilot/AI Foundry into team operations, planning, content creation, and team meetings. Leverage this to expose gaps in the platform. Oversee budget and vendor staff associated with these activities.Manage a ~$500k-$1MM direct program budget, allocating spend to drive ai enablement, pipeline, and product usage for key business areas. Steer larger Microsoft corporate spend for much larger marketing campaigns.Produce crisp one-pagers and exec briefs that distill complex data/AI insights for decision-making for matters of strategic importance.Serve as technical thought-partner to PM/Engineering; evangelize roadmap at events and with analysts. | |