Senior Developer Community Manager

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  with that content. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. The overview had repeated paragraphs; we need to preserve all substantive information but not repeat duplicated lines. So we need to deduplicate. The overview repeats many sentences. We need to keep unique content. Let's extract unique substantive points. Original overview paragraphs (repeated): Paragraph 1: "Overview At Microsoft, we’re building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and drives measurable impact. Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. We prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing." Paragraph 2 repeats same as first? Actually after that they repeat: "At Microsoft, we’re building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and drives measurable impact. Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. We prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing." So duplicate. Then: "This role is focused on the intersection of community, fandom, and content. At Microsoft, we’re building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and drives measurable impact. Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. We prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing. The Senior Developer Community Manager sits at the intersection of community, creators, culture, and technology. As AI transforms how people create, learn, and discover information, authentic human connection is becoming increasingly valuable. The communities people join, the creators they trust, and the experiences they participate in are shaping how new technologies are adopted and understood. At Microsoft, we have something most brands spend years trying to build: passionate communities of people who genuinely love our products. They create content, build businesses, teach others, organize events, and inspire millions through their work. The Creator & Fandom team exists to help those communities grow and thrive. You'll join the Community Team within Creator & Fandom, helping strengthen Microsoft's relationships with content creators across the ecosystem - developers, founders, startups, MVPs, and community leaders. This role is focused on identifying emerging voices, cultivating meaningful relationships, building community-driven programs, and helping technical creators become advocates of Microsoft’s products. This is not a Developer Relations role. Rather than focusing on product evangelism, this role sits within Microsoft's marketing organization and is focused on community building with developer and technical creators to drive advocacy and authentic storytelling. You'll work across Creator Strategy, Community, Creative, and Product Marketing to activate programs, events, creator partnerships, and experiences that connect Microsoft with the people shaping technology culture today. If you're energized by technical communities, internet culture, startup ecosystems, creators, live experiences, and the future of AI, you'll find a home here." Then later: "At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what's next for everyone." Then later repeated: "At Microsoft, we have something most brands spend years trying to build: passionate communities of people who genuinely love our products. They teach one another, create businesses with our tools, compete in global tournaments, build entire careers around our technologies, and bring millions of others along for the journey. The Creator & Fandom team exists to help those communities grow and thrive. You’ll join the Community Team within Creator & Fandom, the team behind programs including the Microsoft Excel World Championship (yes, the one broadcast on ESPN8: The Ocho), Microsoft’s global gaming and esports community initiatives, the MVP program, influencer marketing partnerships and programs, and Community Stories that spotlight people doing remarkable things with Microsoft technology. This isn’t a role where you’ll spend months taking notes from the sidelines. You’ll quickly take ownership of real programs that reach global audiences, collaborate with teams across Microsoft, and help shape the future of how one of the world’s most iconic technology companies engages with creators, fans, and communities. If you’re excited by internet culture, creators, gaming, social platforms, live events, online communities, and the future of AI, you’ll find a home here." Then again mission statement repeated. We need to deduplicate: keep each unique sentence/idea. Let's compile unique overview content: - Microsoft building modern AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, drives measurable impact. Approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. Prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, operate in agile flight formations uniting disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing. - Role focused on intersection of community, fandom, and content. Senior Developer Community Manager sits at intersection of community, creators, culture, and technology. As AI transforms how people create, learn, discover information, authentic human connection becoming increasingly valuable. Communities people join, creators they trust, experiences they participate in shaping how new technologies adopted and understood. - Microsoft has passionate communities of people who genuinely love our products. They create content, build businesses, teach others, organize events, inspire millions through their work. Creator & Fandom team exists to help those communities grow and thrive. - You'll join Community Team within Creator & Fandom, helping strengthen Microsoft's relationships with content creators across ecosystem - developers, founders, startups, MVPs, community leaders. - Role focused on identifying emerging voices, cultivating meaningful relationships, building community-driven programs, helping technical creators become advocates of Microsoft’s products. - Not a Developer Relations role; sits within marketing organization, focused on community building with developer and technical creators to drive advocacy and authentic storytelling. - Work across Creator Strategy, Community, Creative, and Product Marketing to activate programs, events, creator partnerships, experiences connecting Microsoft with people shaping technology culture. - If energized by technical communities, internet culture, startup ecosystems, creators, live experiences, future of AI, you'll find a home here. - Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more guides partnership with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. Growth‑mindset culture, innovate responsibly, measure success by shared progress, people, teams, customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what's next for everyone. - Creator & Fandom team behind programs including Microsoft Excel World Championship (broadcast on ESPN8: The Ocho), global gaming and esports community initiatives, MVP program, influencer marketing partnerships and programs, Community Stories spotlighting people doing remarkable things with Microsoft technology. - You’ll quickly take ownership of real programs reaching global audiences, collaborate across Microsoft, help shape future of how iconic tech company engages with creators, fans, communities. - Excited by internet culture, creators, gaming, social platforms, live events, online communities, future of AI -> find a home here. We should avoid repeating similar sentences. We'll craft a concise but comprehensive overview paragraph(s). Use

  for prose. Now Responsibilities: list bullet points. Responsibilities list from posting: - Act as a trusted connector within the developer, startup, and technical creator ecosystem, building relationships with the people and communities shaping what's next. - Discover and support emerging technical creators, builders, and community leaders before they're obvious, helping grow the next generation of voices working with Microsoft. - Help technical creators create their best work by providing the relationships, context, support, and opportunities needed to tell meaningful stories with Microsoft technologies. - Design and operate always-on programs, activations, and community experiences that bring technical audiences together and create meaningful opportunities for connection, collaboration, and participation. - Partner across Microsoft to connect community insights, creator ecosystems, and business priorities into programs that resonate with technical audiences. - Elevate community stories and builder achievements into moments that earn attention, drive conversation, and strengthen Microsoft's presence within developer culture. - Build the measurement frameworks that help Microsoft understand community health, creator ecosystem growth, advocacy, influence, and long-term business impact. We'll output as

  • each. Qualifications: Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Computer Science, Media, or related field AND 3+ years relevant experience in community management, creator or influencer marketing, developer ecosystems, technical audience engagement, partnerships, social media, or integrated marketing OR equivalent experience. 8+ years of experience in community management, developer relations, advocacy or ambassador programs, or a closely related growth or marketing Fluency with community platforms and tooling such as Discord, Reddit, forums, Circle, Bevy, Discourse, or Khoros, alongside listening, analytics, and CRM Demonstrated track record of scaling an online community or advocacy program from recruitment and onboarding through recognition, retention, and measurable business impact. Experience designing or running community programs, events, meetups, hackathons, workshops, ambassador programs, creator cohorts, or other audience engagement initiatives. Experience identifying, recruiting, onboarding, and developing creators, advocates, or community members as part of a broader marketing or community strategy. Familiarity with developer, startup, AI, open-source, creator, and internet culture, with a strong understanding of how technical audiences discover, trust, and engage with content. Ability to translate complex technical topics into accessible, credible, and compelling content opportunities for creators, communities, and broader audiences. We need to preserve all that. Could split into two

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