UK Director for Developer and Platform Evangelism
Job Category: Marketing
Location: United Kingdom, Reading
Job ID: 781238
Division: Marketing
Location: United Kingdom, Reading
Job ID: 781238
Division: Marketing
Role Purpose
The UK Director for Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) is accountable for strategy, execution and goal fulfillment, through a mix of business and people management. You will require technical acumen, excellent communication skills and a great ability to make strategy happen, both within your direct reports and across virtual teams.
Team/Department Mission
The overall mission of the DPE team is to secure platform and tools adoption. The team’s primary purpose is to ensure developers write applications for Windows, Windows Phone and the Windows Azure platform through technical evangelism and technical audience marketing. DPE focuses on promotion and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies, which leads to current and future revenue.
Responsibilities for DPE include:
• Driving Broad Customer Connection across technical audiences through an integrated approach to evangelism, communities and intelligent audience marketing
• Marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools
• Engaging Cloud Services Vendors (CSVs) through depth and breadth technical evangelism activities and providing ownership (Technical and business) and leadership on CSV’s across the region
• Winning the depth and breadth (at the relevant time) developer community onto Windows, ensuring applications are written for Windows
• Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Cloud Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Azure
• Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Phone Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Phone
• Driving paid and unpaid developer tools to enterprise accounts, partners and through the channel
• Engaging students and faculty in universities and high schools in order to win mindshare of nascent developers
• Engaging with the IT Professionals on private cloud
In summary, DPE is committed to broad platform adoption and a vibrant ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Through evangelism, marketing and sales, DPE helps secure the Microsoft platform, now and in the future.
Key Accountabilities
Business responsibilities include:
• Winning the developer adoption of cloud, phone and the client platforms with a focus on consumer applications and services
• Overall CSV strategy and technical enablement
• Broad developer and IT Pro community engagement and satisfaction
• Broad technical enablement of the Microsoft partner community
• Academic technical evangelism and curriculum adoption
• Tools revenue goals reached
People responsibilities include:
• Inspire senior leaders
• Lead change
• Recruit, retain, develop and export talent
• Build a great succession plan
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
1) Essential Experience
We are looking for someone with a background is managing fast moving consumer goods and services with experience in development, marketing and sales of consumer software and services. You must also have demonstrable people management experience on a large scale.
2) Technical/Functional Skills
Technical Acumen
Knowledge about modern client services and/or technologies like HTML5
Knowledge about cloud services from a technical and business perspective
The ability to understand technical competition
3) Personal Attributes/Interpersonal Skills
Business Leadership
Balancing the complex short, medium and long term DPE mission
Experience from managing fast moving consumer goods and services (Design, develop, market and monetize)
P&L management
Marketing execution
Compete strategy and tactics
Ability to prioritize and make tough trade-offs
People leadership
Strong in performance management, recruitment, attracting talent and talent management
Making strategy happen
The ability to break down high level strategies into targets, tactics and activities and impact
The ability to clarify and simplify (the why, what and the how)
The ability to drive follow up and create clear accountability
Inspirational Leadership
Generate energy in times of transformation i.e. leading when we have little traction and weak base
Convey passion, inspiration and create enthusiasm for the mission and offering (external and internal)
Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or equivalent required,
Masters or equivalent prefered
Special Requirements/Additional Information e.g. Language Skills
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The UK Director for Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) is accountable for strategy, execution and goal fulfillment, through a mix of business and people management. You will require technical acumen, excellent communication skills and a great ability to make strategy happen, both within your direct reports and across virtual teams.
Team/Department Mission
The overall mission of the DPE team is to secure platform and tools adoption. The team’s primary purpose is to ensure developers write applications for Windows, Windows Phone and the Windows Azure platform through technical evangelism and technical audience marketing. DPE focuses on promotion and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies, which leads to current and future revenue.
Responsibilities for DPE include:
• Driving Broad Customer Connection across technical audiences through an integrated approach to evangelism, communities and intelligent audience marketing
• Marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools
• Engaging Cloud Services Vendors (CSVs) through depth and breadth technical evangelism activities and providing ownership (Technical and business) and leadership on CSV’s across the region
• Winning the depth and breadth (at the relevant time) developer community onto Windows, ensuring applications are written for Windows
• Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Cloud Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Azure
• Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Phone Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Phone
• Driving paid and unpaid developer tools to enterprise accounts, partners and through the channel
• Engaging students and faculty in universities and high schools in order to win mindshare of nascent developers
• Engaging with the IT Professionals on private cloud
In summary, DPE is committed to broad platform adoption and a vibrant ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Through evangelism, marketing and sales, DPE helps secure the Microsoft platform, now and in the future.
Key Accountabilities
Business responsibilities include:
• Winning the developer adoption of cloud, phone and the client platforms with a focus on consumer applications and services
• Overall CSV strategy and technical enablement
• Broad developer and IT Pro community engagement and satisfaction
• Broad technical enablement of the Microsoft partner community
• Academic technical evangelism and curriculum adoption
• Tools revenue goals reached
People responsibilities include:
• Inspire senior leaders
• Lead change
• Recruit, retain, develop and export talent
• Build a great succession plan
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
1) Essential Experience
We are looking for someone with a background is managing fast moving consumer goods and services with experience in development, marketing and sales of consumer software and services. You must also have demonstrable people management experience on a large scale.
2) Technical/Functional Skills
Technical Acumen
Knowledge about modern client services and/or technologies like HTML5
Knowledge about cloud services from a technical and business perspective
The ability to understand technical competition
3) Personal Attributes/Interpersonal Skills
Business Leadership
Balancing the complex short, medium and long term DPE mission
Experience from managing fast moving consumer goods and services (Design, develop, market and monetize)
P&L management
Marketing execution
Compete strategy and tactics
Ability to prioritize and make tough trade-offs
People leadership
Strong in performance management, recruitment, attracting talent and talent management
Making strategy happen
The ability to break down high level strategies into targets, tactics and activities and impact
The ability to clarify and simplify (the why, what and the how)
The ability to drive follow up and create clear accountability
Inspirational Leadership
Generate energy in times of transformation i.e. leading when we have little traction and weak base
Convey passion, inspiration and create enthusiasm for the mission and offering (external and internal)
Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or equivalent required,
Masters or equivalent prefered
Special Requirements/Additional Information e.g. Language Skills
EUR:MSGB:MKT:EN
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity
Microsoft’s privacy statement can be viewed on the following web page: http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.mspx>
UK Director for Developer and Platform Evangelism
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