Learning Manager - Data Professionals

Overview

In today's digital landscape, learning new skills has never been more important. The Audience and Outbound Skilling team helps people build skills faster through video and digital content, distributed across various platforms. We are focused on reaching new audiences and helping them build skills for the future, while supporting business growth by expanding Microsoft's presence across workforce segments.

As a Learning Manager - Data Professionals, you will build and scale a center of excellence focused on upskilling data professionals through engaging, short-form content. Your goal will be to help learners effectively apply AI and cloud tools in their day-to-day work.

You will lead the development of a comprehensive learning portfolio, including a library of high-quality, short-form content designed for a global audience. This content will be delivered across multiple channels-with an emphasis on social media-to provide accessible and relevant skilling experiences for data professionals worldwide.

Join us in Worldwide Learning and be part of a team dedicated to helping people build skills and reach their potential through impactful learning experiences. Together, we enable skill development across employees.

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.

Responsibilities

• Data professional short form skilling strategy - Lead the short-form skilling strategy for data professionals by defining learning needs, key use cases, learning preferences, and influencer landscape, with the goal of helping this audience more effectively apply AI

• Skilling engagement content development - Execute on the strategy by curating and developing engaging short-form content (primarily video) to help data professionals apply AI more effectively in their work

• Audience engagement strategy & execution - Develop and execute a strategy to engage data professionals and build trust across channels, including events, communities, outbound outreach, and in-product experiences

• Social media activation - Partner with the social media team to publish and scale content across channels to reach and support new learners

• Collaboration - Collaborate with cross-functional teams across social media, marketing, advocacy, and product to integrate data professional content across channels

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree or equivalent 1+ year(s) experience in product marketing, learning and development, relevant technical roles, customer success, research, industry, program/project management, or corporate education

• OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent AND 2+ years of experience in product marketing, learning and development, relevant technical roles, customer success, research, industry, program/project management, or corporate education

• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree or equivalent AND 6+ years of experience in data product marketing, AI use cases and storytelling , sales enablement and/or Go-to-Market strategy

• Experience leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to drive business impact, including hands-on experience developing prompts and working with agent-based workflows to translate research and insights into scalable content or storytelling outputs

• Exhibits a growth-oriented mindset and demonstrates persistence and accountability in driving work forward

• Experience scripting for short-form video

• Skilled at simplifying complex ideas through clear and compelling storytelling

• Familiarity with Microsoft data and analytics solutions (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Explorer, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Foundry)

Integrated Learning & Skilling IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 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 $125,000 - $206,400 per year.

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This 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. (