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The Principal Partner Marketing Manager (Microsoft) will lead strategic co-marketing initiatives with one of the world's largest public cloud providers. Databricks is constantly building and pushing the boundaries of what's possible for data and AI platforms in close collaboration with our cloud partners' services and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience as a partner or product marketing manager (or a similar role) at an enterprise software company.
This role will combine partner and product marketing, with a business development mindset, to define and execute joint marketing strategies that drive awareness, demand, and revenue growth through the partnership. You’ll work cross-functionally across Marketing, Partner Sales, and Product teams, as well as directly with our hyperscaler partner’s marketing and field teams. This is a high-impact role ideal for a strategic marketer with a passion for partnerships, storytelling, and measurable results.
The impact you will have:
- Partner Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive joint marketing plan aligned to business objectives, GTM motions, and sales priorities for Microsoft.
- Campaigns & Programs: Plan and execute integrated co-marketing campaigns (e.g., events, digital, content syndication, solution launches) that drive awareness, pipeline, and adoption.
- Field Enablement: Work closely with partner sales and field marketing to support regional demand generation, joint account planning, and customer engagement initiatives.
- Content & Messaging: Collaborate cross-functionally to develop compelling content and joint value propositions, solution briefs, case studies, and customer stories.
- Metrics & Reporting: Define KPIs and provide regular reporting on performance, pipeline contribution, and marketing influence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal teams across campaigns, digital, communications, and events to ensure consistent execution and messaging.
What we look for:
- 10+ years of experience in partner marketing, product or solution marketing for an enterprise software or SaaS company.
- Proven success in building and executing joint GTM programs with Microsoft.
- Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems, solution co-selling, and enterprise buyer journeys.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to manage complex projects and build trusted relationships internally and externally.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
- Data-driven and comfortable measuring and optimizing performance across campaigns.
- Self-starter with high attention to detail and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with cloud, big data, data analytics, data warehouse, machine learning or AI technologies.
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About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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