Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking a highly motivated Marketing Manager (Contract) to support and accelerate startup growth through various marketing initiatives. The role involves end-to-end content creation, management of content calendars, and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure alignment with campaign priorities.
Responsibilities
- Write, edit, and publish high-quality content across blogs, newsletters, social posts, short-form videos, visuals, and campaign assets aligned to brand messaging and business goals
- Develop polished first drafts and creative concepts independently by turning ideas, inputs, and subject matter expert guidance into publish-ready content with minimal oversight
- Manage the owned social channel calendar, prioritizing content based on audience relevance, campaign timing, and business impact
- Evaluate content for publication readiness, ensuring alignment with messaging guidelines, brand standards, and channel best practices
- Create and package social content for campaigns and announcements, including copy, visuals, short-form videos, captions, and posting assets
- Monitor competitor activity, platform trends, and content performance to surface insights and social media best practice recommendations to internal teams
- Partner with the Content and Messaging Lead on campaign planning, editorial calendar alignment, and cross-functional content priorities
- Manage contributor workflows across founders, partners, and internal teams, including outreach, input collection, stakeholder coordination, and follow-ups
- Create ready-to-use amplification copy for stakeholders, partners, and employees, and coordinate distribution across social, partner, and internal channels
- Support real-time event content capture and production, including photos, videos, interviews, recaps, and post-event storytelling assets
- Own content distribution and amplification across internal and external channels, including campaign tagging, naming conventions, and tracking systems
- Track social and content performance, monitor trends, sentiment, and audience feedback, and translate insights into actionable recommendations for content and messaging optimization
- Identify opportunities to refresh, optimize, or retire outdated content to maintain channel relevance and content quality
Skills
- Proven end-to-end ownership of social media channels and content calendars with measurable outcomes
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple content workstreams, competing deadlines, and cross-functional stakeholder feedback
- Background in content creation across blogs, newsletters, social media, and short-form video with a portfolio or writing samples required
- Experience supporting campaign execution, event content capture, and post-event storytelling assets
- Portfolio or writing samples demonstrating long-form, social, and multimedia content creation are required for consideration
- Intermediate design skills using Canva, Figma, or similar tools to produce visuals, short-form videos, and campaign assets
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with the ability to produce long-form, social, and multimedia content independently
- Hands-on social media execution experience including content planning, copywriting, publishing, monitoring, and performance reporting
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, deadlines, and content workflows simultaneously
- Familiarity with social media platforms including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as best practices for each
- Experience with content planning tools, CMS platforms, campaign tracking, and performance metrics
- Ability to create or edit social visuals and short-form video using tools such as Canva, Figma, or Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience with social media management platforms such as Sprinklr or equivalent tools
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to work independently with minimal direction
- Adaptability and sound judgment when navigating fast-moving priorities and ambiguous situations
- Experience with analytics and reporting tools to pull, analyze, and present performance data
- Prior experience working at or with startups, venture capital firms, or within the broader technology or developer ecosystem is strongly preferred
- Knowledge of SEO principles, AEO, and content optimization strategies is a plus
- Familiarity with B2B tech, startup, AI, developer, or enterprise audiences is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Hospital plans
- 401(k) Retirement Plan 6 Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Company paid short and long-term disability
- Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave(PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave
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