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Developer Event Marketing Manager

The Mobile and Embedded Devices Central Marketing Group (MEDCMG) is looking for a talented event marketer to lead our developer audience event marketing planning and execution. MEDCMG is the marketing and communications arm of the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division -- Microsoft’s smallest yet fastest growing P&L unit. We’re responsible for marketing Windows Mobile for Smartphones, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Portable Media Center, Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded to a broad range of audiences. If you’re passionate about improving people’s personal and work lives through unique, innovative mobile devices, if you want to work in a red-hot industry poised for dramatic growth and you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of a critical and fast-growing Microsoft business then we’d like to speak with you.

Primary Role

This mobile and embedded developer events position focuses on three primary areas:

· Driving the strategy, planning and execution for U.S. and worldwide events (Developer Conferences in particular) with objectives including: supporting relevant product launches; increasing demand generation and qualified leads; and maintaining/growing developer loyalty for our platforms.

· Working with product groups and other cross-group teams (developer partner, sales and marketing teams) to analyze business objectives and develop event marketing ‘recipes’ to effectively meet objectives.

· Building strong relationships with world-wide regional teams and both onsite and virtual logistics teams to create and execute the best event programs with an eye toward measuring ROI and customer satisfaction.

The successful candidate must manage and drive demand generation tactics and oversee event execution (via management of logistic resources) for MED Tier I events focused on product launch business objectives and product technical training. As events are a high-investment method of reaching customers, this role requires a sophisticated understanding of marketing vehicles and an understanding of how and when to most effectively use events.

 In addition, this person will be responsible for a multi-million dollar budget, forecasting and spending, including managing budgets allocated to international regions. Lastly, success in this position requires developing a strong relationship with the regional product marketing teams throughout the world. These teams are critical stakeholders in each of these initiatives and are essential to the success given their regional knowledge and experience.

Position Requirements:

- 8+ years experience in event management

- 5+ years in high-tech marketing

- Strong virtual team management skills

- Must be able to work effectively across groups

- Strong interpersonal communication skills - ability to present at all levels of the organization and be a positive public representative for Microsoft to outside organizations.

- Ability to travel regularly in both US and internationally

- Extensive experience in project management and the ability to work against tight deadlines.

- Must be self-motivated and able to work on long-term projects with little direction.

- Excellent decision-making, problem solving and negotiating skills.

- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills are required.

- BA degree is required