Senior Communications Manager, Executive Communications

About This Role

This Senior Communications Manager role focuses on executive communications within Microsoft's new Frontier Company, a customer outcome-driven organization. The role involves leading both external and internal communications for several executives on the Frontier Company leadership team, working directly with them and their Chiefs of Staff to drive business impact and thought leadership. It is a strategic position offering significant executive visibility, cross-team collaboration, and broad communication experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop communications strategy for several Frontier Company leaders and drive execution and scale of plans to deliver business impact and help increase Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) pipeline
• Develop core messaging and narrative to bring the Frontier Company purpose and business priorities to life through dynamic and proactive storytelling both internally and externally
• Develop a strategic communications plan to drive the highest impact work
• Demonstrate strategic leadership by driving impactful messaging for the business, aligning with the company mission, strategy, leadership principles, and cultural attributes
• Act as single-point-of-contact for any internal or external, speaking, traditional, and social media requests for the leaders - partnering with appropriate teams to triage, check for alignment to strategy and team priorities, and ensure that positioning and tone is appropriate for executive engagement
• Create and align communications plans to Rhythm of Business (RoB), business priorities, and broader Frontier Company Go-To-Market (GTM) plans
• Drive and execute an orchestrated and thoughtful social media strategy for the leaders
• Lead communications strategy and execution with a strategic, creative, and proactive approach, translating business priorities into clear, high-impact communications plans and deliverables
• Plan, prioritize, and execute communications programs with grounded business judgment, operational rigor, and attention to detail in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• Develop compelling written and verbal communications and narratives that make complex topics clear and accessible, tailoring messages and recommendations for a range of internal and external audiences
• Apply knowledge of the technology industry, Microsoft strategy, products, services, and culture to ensure appropriate communication

About the Company

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Frontier Company is a new line of business and one of the industry's first customer outcome-driven organizations, bringing together industry expertise, strategic partnerships, and engineering as part of MCAPS. Its teams work side-by-side with customers to co-design, deploy, and continuously improve AI systems that deliver measurable, customer-defined outcomes.