AI and cloud technology are leading growth areas for Microsoft and our customers turn to our blogs, community, and social channels to inform their business decision-making. To support our fast-growing business and commitment to meeting customers where they are at, the commercial marketing team is looking for a seasoned digital and social leader to continue defining the vision and strategy of the commercial blog and social ecosystem, the largest at Microsoft. The social ecosystem includes 70+ social handles across major social platforms, supporting high visibility offerings including Azure, MS Dev, Microsoft 365, Fabric, Teams, and Security among others. The social ecosystem publishes 500+ posts per month.  The blog ecosystem has 24 blog properties publishing 500+ blog posts annually.  

This Head of Commercial Blog & Social role is perfect for a strategic senior leader with a creative, story-telling, and digital acumen, who can also tell stories of impact leveraging data and insights. As the senior director for commercial blog and social, this individual will be responsible for leading the blog and social experiences in support of high priority initiatives including events, announcements, campaigns, follower engagement, and working with our partners across the organization to provide customers with technical support. A key part of this role is to develop points-of-view on how we should leverage or not new social platforms, recommend engagement strategies, create governance principles to adhere to social best practices such as accessibility and privacy, etc. These strategic points-of-view are also used to educate our leadership on the why and how of social and provide meaningful insights to further their business objectives.  

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