About Microsoft

The Americas Enterprise Partner Solutions (EPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more.

Excerpted from one of Microsoft's open partner manager postings.

Compensation Context

This company's median disclosed compensation for director partner roles is $201K. The national median for director partner manager roles in our dataset is $140K, meaning Microsoft posts roughly 44 percent above the national median for this seniority.

For the full seniority-by-seniority comparison, see our state of partner manager compensation analysis.

Seniority Mix

Open partner roles at Microsoft span the mid, senior and director bands (mid (1), senior (1), director (3)). The seniority breakdown shapes whether the company is building a partner org (more director-and-above hiring) or staffing it out (more mid-level hiring).

Partner Program Signals

Structural signals extracted from this company's open partner job descriptions:

  • Channel: Indirect revenue motion through resellers, distributors, MSPs, or referral partners.
  • Enterprise: Enterprise segment focus, typical deal size in the $100K+ range.
  • Smb: Small-to-medium business segment focus, higher transaction volume.
  • Global: Global scope with multi-region partner coverage.
  • Equity: Equity compensation is part of the package.

Tool Stack Mentioned in Postings

Named tools and platforms that appear in this company's partner manager job descriptions, weighted by mention count.

Bedrock (1)Azure (1)

Where They Hire

Open partner postings appear in the following locations:

  • Redmond, WA, US (3)
  • US (2)

Open Partner Manager Roles at Microsoft

Title Location Salary Range Seniority
Channel & Partner Marketing Director - Surface and Microsoft 365 Redmond, WA, US $130K - $272K Director
Director, Partner Success US $130K - $272K Director
Director, Platform Growth & Ecosystem Marketing, Minecraft Redmond, WA, US $130K - $272K Director
General Manager, Partner Development US $158K - $267K Mid
Senior Partner Marketing Manager - Windows Field & Go-to-Market Redmond, WA, US $106K - $222K Senior

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