Director of Strategic Partnerships Formula 1

Were building a Frontier marketing organization that learns faster activates smarter and delivers measurable outcomes. Our team establishes diverse partnerships with authentic technology implementations and integrates those partnerships across scale marketing engines. We prioritize outcomes over activity embrace rapid learning loops and collaborate across organizations and disciplines to show the potential impact of Microsofts technology solutions to our partners.

We are seeking a Director of Strategic Partnerships Formula 1 to own the end-to-end strategy executive relationships technology roadmap and business impact of one of Microsofts most visible global partnerships. This leader will operate at the intersection of partner strategy product and engineering commercial opportunity and integrated marketing.

As a people manager and organizational leader this person will build clarity in ambiguity raise the quality of design-making develop talent and create accountability across internal teams agencies and partners. You will represent the partnership with senior Microsoft and partner executives and communicate progress risks tradeoffs learnings and business outcomes with precision.

This candidate will be an enterprise-minded leader who can shape a multi-year vision influence executives without direct authority and mobilize cross-functional teams to delivery technology-enabled experiences. You will bring sufficient technical depth to engage credibility with product and engineering leaders convert partner challenges into clear solution opportunities and ensure every activation demonstrates meaningful use of Microsoft technology rather than sponsorship visibility alone.

Microsofts 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 positivelyimpactour culture every day.

• Lead coach and develop a high-performing team setting clear priorities decision rights quality standards and accountability for outcomes.
• Manage external relationships with sports organizations ensuring effective delivery of partnership objectives operating model and success measures for the Formula 1 partnership.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams or agencies to deliver transformational technology with the partner.
• Develop activation plans to drive awareness of partnership and build product consideration/adoption through storytelling and tech engagement.
• Execute against rights and assets within partnership agreements.
• Lead the integrated activation strategy across campaigns content digital experiences events hospitality customer engagement and partner channels.
• Direct agencies and cross-functional teams from brief through delivery ensuring creative ambition is matched by strategic clarity technical authenticity operational rigor and on time execution.
• Develop meaningful briefs
• Establish and maintain work back schedules
• Manage creative reviews with senior leadership
• Facilitate internal and partner approvals
• Deliver assets to channels on time
• Support reporting and insights delivery
• Provide credible leadership across cloud data AI security developer productivity and customer experience scenarios bringing in the right technical resources to validate architecture feasibility privacy security and scalability.
• Report on partnership activations and campaigns mapping activities to key KPIs and identifying opportunities for optimization and impact.
• Drive visibility internally of partnerships and establish regular cadence of engagement to ensure companywide utilization.
• Manage a complex budget ensuring adherence to all targets compliance with procurement policies and efficient use of resources.
• Embody our Cultureand Values

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Business Marketing Communications Economics Public Relations or related field AND 5 years sponsorship activation integrated marketing (e.g. digital relationship social media campaign) event management marketing strategy business planning marketing operations or related work experience
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business Marketing Communications Economics Public Relations or related field AND 3 years sponsorship activation integrated marketing (e.g. digital relationship social media campaign) event management marketing strategy business planning marketing operations or related experience
• OR Bachelors Degree in Business Marketing Communications Economics Public Relations or related field AND 7 years sponsorship activation integrated marketing (e.g. digital relationship social media campaign) event management marketing strategy business planning marketing operations or related experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3 years people management experience.
• Experience in Formula 1 motorsport sports entertainment or another global rights-holder ecosystem.

• Campaign development and execution experience with a focus on measurable impact analysis.
• Experience in project management navigating varying priorities tight timelines organizational alignment measurement and accountability.
• Experience in technical product storytelling.

Integrated Marketing M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130900 - $251900 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 $165600 - $272300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

Required Experience:

Manager