Marketing

Sharing Our Products. Inspiring Our Customers.
It's an exhilarating experience helping people discover the right technology to make their lives easier, richer, and more rewarding — one you can experience every day as a marketing intern at Microsoft. We depend on thousands of highly talented people like you to keep our business growing in the more than 100 countries we serve. Marketing gurus, public relations specialists, strategic thinkers, product visionaries, extroverts, and road warriors are just some of the incredible people we seek to keep us number one in the world. Are you one of them?

Some of our Marketing internships include:
Product Management
Product Planning

Product Management

Got a head for what makes customers tick? You can help manage the development of the must-have, cutting-edge products and services they desire. You’ll excel as a Product Manager intern at Microsoft if you’re wickedly smart, with razor-sharp instincts about what makes a good product and how to exceed customer expectations. You’ll direct both colleagues and vendors with keen insight into what makes customers tick. Sure, there is a lot of big-picture thinking and strategy involved, but it’s the little decisions you’ll make under fire every day that’ll set you apart.

With the resources of a multi-billion dollar company behind you, Product Managers have a wide range of responsibilities that differ depending on business group and product evolution:

Direct product messaging and value propositions. Combine your leadership skills and marketing savvy to create and execute overall brand, pricing, placement, and promotion initiatives for your product—backed by a significant marketing budget. Work with various cross functional teams including sales, go-to-market, program management and finance to articulate financial impact of projects and business choices.

Develop mutually beneficial relationships with external partners. Successfully negotiate business terms and technical requirements, design and execute co-marketing initiatives, and collaborate with strategic partners to define next-generation product features.

Define product business models. Directly impact multi-billion dollar franchises as you work with our field organization to drive sales of products and services to a wide range of customers with different challenges: enterprise, medium and small businesses, consumers, third party vendors, partners, and more.

With so many new ideas and products in the pipeline, there’s no limit to the career-expanding potential for a proactive strategic thinker who’s a leader with a solid grasp of the big picture.

Product Planning

Give your entrepreneurial spirit room to roam. In the earliest stages of business strategy and product development, forward-thinking Product Planners help define our product roadmap using their entrepreneurial skills and customer awareness to identify market opportunities and deliver recommendations to the product group. From concept to research to market evaluation, your rare combination of creative and analytical talents will be front and center when a multi-million dollar product launch is on the line.

In this role you will help:

•	Conduct market analysis and perform competitive reviews to better understand customer needs
•	Define new product vision and value propositions
•	Identify new market opportunities and assess customer needs
•	Develop robust business plans
•	Deliver strategic and tactical recommendations to the product group

Microsoft introduces some of the most innovative technology in the world, so the sky is the limit for your creativity here. As a Planner, you’ll have the freedom—and responsibility—to pursue your own ideas, know our customers and follow your own instincts. Even better, you’ll have the resources to bring those ideas to life.