About Microsoft

The Americas Enterprise Partner Solutions team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft. Our mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services, and devices with partners with the goal of empowering people and organizations to achieve more. Our field sales team works with partners that provide scale and industry relevance to our customer engagements as they service and sell to our customers.

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 $107K, meaning Microsoft posts roughly 73 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 (3), senior (3), 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:

  • Build Team: Building out a partner team from scratch or scaling an existing one. Expect higher operational ownership.
  • 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.
  • North America: North America 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 (4)Power Bi (1)Bedrock (1)

Where They Hire

Open partner postings appear in the following locations:

  • US (3)
  • Redmond, WA, US (3)
  • Redmond, WA (1)
  • Washington, DC, US (1)
  • New York, NY (1)
  • FL, US (1)

Open Partner Manager Roles at Microsoft

Title Location Salary Range Seniority
Business Program Manager, OEM Partner Marketing Redmond, WA, US $116K - $222K Mid
Director, Creator Programs & Ecosystems Marketing - Minecraft Washington, DC, US $130K - $272K Director
Director, Partner Development Manager FL, US $133K - $239K Director
Director, Partnerships & Channel Programs Redmond, WA, US $130K - $272K Director
Director, Payment Strategy & Partnerships Redmond, WA Not disclosed Director
Partner Development Manager US $107K - $205K Mid
Principal Product Manager - Consumer Identity & User Ecosystem, Microsoft AI Experiences New York, NY Not disclosed Senior
Senior Partner Marketing Manager US $106K - $222K Senior
Senior Product Marketing Manager, AI Apps & Agents Ecosystem Growth Redmond, WA, US $106K - $222K Senior
Sr. Partner Development Manager US $133K - $239K Mid

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