Senior Manager, Event & Partner Program Operations

Senior Manager, Event & Partner Program Operations

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200046933

Date posted

Oct 23, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

25-50%

Profession

Marketing

Discipline

Marketing Technology

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

At Microsoft Advertising, we create innovative technology for a conversational, personalized, and agentic era. Our commitment to more private and personalized advertising experiences means building globally scaled platforms that ensure performance, trust, and business growth. We do this by harnessing the full power of AI and our unique audience intelligence to make delivering personalized advertising for any outcome simple, including unparalleled access to Microsoft’s high-intent, highly engaged audiences across Copilot, Bing, Xbox, Gaming, MSN, Outlook, Edge, LinkedIn, Windows, and high-quality supply from publishers.

We are committed to helping businesses navigate the next era of advertising, where generative AI is unlocking better outcomes between people, brands, publishers, and ad platforms.

As Senior Manager, Event & Partner Program Operations, you will build the operational foundation that connects Microsoft Advertising’s event portfolio and partner programs to consistent execution, trusted data, and actionable business insight. You will be accountable for the end-to-end operational integrity of first-, second-, and third-party events, from global tentpoles to regional and scaled programs, spanning planning, execution and data capture, post-event activation, and measurement.

Across partner programs, you will enable execution through systems, processes, data, governance, and reporting. This proposed combined role will align operational priorities, ownership, and measures with Partner Marketing. Partner Marketing retains program strategy, partner engagement and communications strategy and content, member experience, recognition strategy, and growth outcomes. This role translates those priorities into scalable operational capabilities, rather than assuming ownership of those strategies.

You will work across Global and Regional Marketing, Experiential, Client & Partner Marketing, Sales and Sales Operations, Analytics, Finance, and Product and Engineering. Your mandate is to replace fragmented platforms and manual work with integrated systems, shared definitions, clear workflows, and reliable measurement across both portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Own capability requirements and a prioritized operational roadmap across events and partner programs. Begin with an ecosystem audit of systems, workflows, stakeholders, vendors, reporting, communications, governance, and manual effort. Translate findings into a business backlog of automation and process improvements, with clear business cases, milestones, dependencies, and decision points.
• Lead multi-semester planning and cross-functional governance, including change control. Establish shared Marketing and Sales definitions, ownership, escalation paths, and support models. Surface blockers and trade-offs early, and provide executive stakeholders with concise progress reporting, data insights, business cases, and recommendations.
• Design repeatable workflows linking event planning, execution, contact capture, and post-event activation. At global tentpoles, lead on-site operational readiness for compliant lead and contact capture, customer meetings, and clean handof