Activation GTM Leader, AI Business Process, Asia

Microsoft
$115,567 - $146,333 a year
New South Wales
Full time
5 days ago

Activation GTM Leader, AI Business Process, Asia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

+ 5 more locations


Date posted
Aug 04, 2025
Job number
1839411
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Marketing
Discipline
Field Product Marketing
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

The Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) team plays an essential role in translating Microsoft’s Commercial Strategy to a local execution plan and driving operational excellence to achieve the greatest results possible. Our team drives cross-Region, cross-Area and cross-Subsidiary insight and execution excellence, bringing strategy and priorities to life by accelerating the pace of transformation and enabling Microsoft to deliver business impact at scale.


As the Activation GTM Leader for Ai Business Process in Asia, you will oversee the Activation GTM Managers who accelerate revenue growth, boost field agility, and deliver results with our field sellers by deepening your partnership with key stakeholders across the region, Sales Excellence, sales, marketing, consulting, customer success, and partner functions, supporting One-Microsoft. You will focus on driving alignment across processes and tools, leading with a cross-solution approach to optimize pipelines, ensuring effective communication and flawless execution, and leveraging insights to drive data-driven decision-making. This role is critical to driving customer adoption at scale, driven by deep solution play domain, product truth, and partnerships with sales, marketing, operations, and sales excellence.


We’re seeking an accomplished and visionary leader to join our Go-to-Market (GTM) team. This role demands a strategic thinker who can inspire teams, drive alignment across diverse functions, and champion success through innovation and decisive action. As a leader, you will guide the team in tracking success criteria and performance metrics, leveraging emergent technologies, simplifying complex concepts, and removing roadblocks to achieve impactful results. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your leadership journey, deepen your strategic acumen, and cultivate a culture of collaboration and excellence. The role offers flexibility, including the option to work up to 50% from home.


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.


Qualifications

Required (RQs)

  • 8+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

  • 12+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years experience managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio and driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization.
  • 5+ years people management experience.


Responsibilities

  • You will be a primary product spokesperson and evangelist for a Product Manager-owned portfolio. Leverages product, industry, market and competitive knowledge as well as technical expertise to develop localized competitive strategy, position the value proposition and tailor messaging to both internal and external audiences.
  • You will own accountability for defined scorecard metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for a product/service as well as plan and execute business strategy in the highest priority areas and/or where the most impact can be had for the line of business. Partners with relevant senior leadership team(s) as required to ensure alignment with area/subsidiary goals and drives business priorities.
  • You will contribute to the creation of strategic go-to-market (GTM) plans, for initiatives, across sales, marketing, consulting, customer success, and partner functions as well as guide and supports the partner team in recruiting and enabling partners to achieve target capacity and quality and align with subsidiary scorecard metrics, targets and attainment strategies.
  • In collaboration with sales partners, you will serve as an orchestrator between the Business Group (BG) Lead and the area/subsidiary to land sales programs with clarity, and ensure the channel and sellers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to sell.
  • You will contribute to the definition and implementation of competitive strategy and white-space growth opportunities for sellers within a product line/segment and support the three-horizon business development planning.
  • You will contribute to a pipeline of feedback from sales to supply chain and supports forecasts for supply needs in the near term and foster alignment and ensures landing for large/unique hardware or capacity needs.
  • You will exemplify Microsoft Values, Culture, Leadership Principles and create clarity by creating a shared understanding.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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