The Partner Development Manager – VC (PDMR-VC) is the primary owner of the relationship between Microsoft and a select list of venture capital (VC) firms. Microsoft aspires to offer the most comprehensive, inclusive, and profitable partner network in the industry.  The individual contributor is part of the Global Partner Solutions (GPS) organization.  GPS leads this effort in recruiting venture capital (VC) and private equity firms (PE) for collaboration and early access to their portfolio companies. Microsoft views relationships with these firms as an integral part of the ISV partner recruit strategy - building solutions together, creating vibrant routes to market, and selling with impact to joint customers.

This individual will manage the relationship with a portfolio of select VC firms, will orchestrate bi directional market signal and will qualify digital natives and other software companies from their portfolio for engagement and to leverage the Microsoft engines. The individual will work with these startups to guide them through recruit and migration processes, to develop their solutions on the Microsoft platform. The Global PDM-VC orchestrates the resources and provides guidance for the duration of the recruit process, working with the new partner to create value that will solve customer business challenges for the prospective customers of the joint offerings. The  focus will be on both early stage startups and on late stage, high growth companies within these portfolios and will result in cloud penetration and cloud revenue growth.