Join Microsoft’s Global Talent Development, Diversity, and Inclusion team to help us achieve our mission to empower everyone, by ensuring everyone is included. Bring your experience, expertise, and talents to the team accountable for increasing diversity, strengthening inclusion, and creating unparalleled access to career opportunity for 200,000 employees across the globe. Together we will address some of the most complex systemic and cultural challenges our industry faces today.
As Senior Communications Manager of Global Talent, Development, Diversity, and Inclusion (GTDDI), you will lead the development and execution of strategic communications plans, messaging, creative content, and storytelling to support our employee experience, engagement, and positioning goals around career, talent, and diversity & inclusion. Reporting to the GTDDI Communications Director, you will have direct accountability for managing communications for global talent management, and for enabling key messengers to share Microsoft’s approach to careers, talent development, diversity, and inclusion.
In this role you will leverage your expertise in employee communications, marketing communications, writing and content development, storytelling, and project management to make a meaningful impact for the company and for Microsoft employees. You will partner with your colleagues on the GTDDI team, across Human Resources (HR), and on the Corporate Communications team to envision, create, and deliver communications, campaigns, thought leadership, executive guidance and messaging, and materials that inform and motivate external and internal audiences. Your work will play a key role in helping to convey, cohere, and connect talent management and diversity & inclusion messaging and positioning to bring our work and its impact to life. Interview candidates will be asked to provide writing samples.
This role enables Microsoft to further intentionally integrate our global talent development and global diversity & inclusion efforts. At a unique time for the organization, you will have the opportunity to help strategically shape the company’s narrative.
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.
Communication Strategy and Planning
- Develops communications strategy and planning in alignment with larger communications and content strategy for the team.
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Defines tactics in support of overall strategy, including identifying formats, channels, and audience calls to action, ensuring relevance of voice across messages and channels.
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Translates value proposition into effective communications strategies and storytelling that resonate with target audience(s).
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Understands audience needs and adapts communications strategies accordingly.
Execution of Communication Strategy
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Develops core communications assets and materials to support strategy (communications plans, core messaging, thought leadership, narratives, presentations, social posts, talking points, FAQs, briefing materials, scripting) for use in across programs, launches, social media, videos, and events.
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Ensures content is aligned with the comms strategy and appropriately adapted across channels for each audience, while also ensuring consistency when needed.
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Develops and executes against workbacks to drive the creation of collateral.
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Collaborates with and solicits feedback from stakeholders and iterates as appropriate.
Storytelling and Messaging
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Develops storytelling opportunities informed by meaningful insights.
- Creates narratives, messaging, thought leadership, and other content and creative based on frameworks that drive content development and deployment.
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Collaborates across teams to develop stories in ways that generate engagement and align to objectives.
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Monitors, tracks, and analyzes the impact of and responses to messaging for a given issue. Creates responsive materials as needed and engages others when appropriate.
Employee and Executive Communications
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Supports strategy internally for employee communications. Supports an over-arching cadence of communications and platforms for employees to meet organizational goals.
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Supports the creation of communications to inform and facilitate employee communications.
- Supports others to leverage and develop platforms to inform and facilitate employee communications.
Commitment to culture
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Embody our culture and live our values in support of our company mission.
Required/Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or related experience
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OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Creative Writing, or related field AND 6+ years Communications, Marketing, or related experience
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OR equivalent experience.
Communications IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,700 - $219,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 18, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.