As the Azure SMB Partner Marketing Lead for Japan, you will be responsible for

• Defining, developing and executing partner marketing strategies to ensure market, channel, partner readiness for new solution/offering launch. Designs, executes, and localizes end-to-end partner experiences.
• Driving and leading partner-centered learning across solutions/lines of business by evaluating internal and external data and reports, through discussions and direct facing with senior-executive level partners, and by generating and leveraging insights and collaborating with a broad network of critical stakeholders.  
• Contributes to the investment process by helping to identify, executing on, and scoping new/existing business opportunities to drive strategic impact for Microsoft.
• Conducts and helps manage others to conduct analyses to measure success metrics of GTM campaigns.
• Owns/drives trusted senior executive-level partner marketing relationships in order to work towards mutual business objectives and alignment to partner's priorities to establish trust and credibility.
• Leads cross-functional stakeholders to drive impact. Uses subject matter expertise to provide feedback across partners and customers on how products and processes may be improved to better serve partners/customers or internal stakeholders