About Microsoft

The Director of Partner Dev Management role is designed to drive strategy, performance, and executional excellence among Microsoft’s Telcos across the US. As Microsoft inspires its partner ecosystem for the cloud-first era, this role stands at the intersection of market opportunity, partner enablement, and business transformation, uniquely positioned to orchestrate partner success at scale across the partner type.

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

Compensation Context

This company's median disclosed compensation for mid partner roles is $186K. The national median for mid partner manager roles in our dataset is $101K, meaning Microsoft posts roughly 84 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 (2), senior (1), director (4)). 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.
  • Direct: Direct sales motion alongside the partner work; partner team is not the only revenue path.
  • 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.
  • Emea: EMEA regional focus.
  • Apac: APAC regional focus.
  • 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.

Azure (1)

Where They Hire

Open partner postings appear in the following locations:

  • US (2)
  • Redmond, WA (1)
  • Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (1)
  • Singapore, Singapore (1)
  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1)
  • Washington, DC, US (1)

Open Partner Manager Roles at Microsoft

Title Location Salary Range Seniority
Director of Strategic Partnerships - Formula 1 Redmond, WA Not disclosed Director
Director, Platform Growth & Ecosystem Marketing Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Not disclosed Director
Director, Regional Channel Partner Marketing Singapore, Singapore Not disclosed Director
Director, Telco Partner Development Manager US $133K - $239K Director
Global Partner Development Manager Washington, DC, US $133K - $239K Mid
Retail Partner Marketing Manager US $106K - $222K Mid
Strategic Partnership Lead SPT - Japan Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Not disclosed Senior

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