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Qualifications:
- 8+ years in portfolio, program, product or go-to-market management in a technology partner or professional services environment.
- Experience managing intake, readiness and priorities across competing stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft co-sell, CSP, Azure Marketplace and consumption-based offers.
- Executive facilitation skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Experience coordinating launches across sales, enablement, marketing and technical delivery teams.
- Ability to define outcome measures and use data to guide portfolio decisions.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication with senior leaders and Microsoft stakeholders.
- Ability to earn the Microsoft certifications required by the SPF program within 90 days of start.
- Nice to have: PMP, PgMP or a comparable program management credential.
- Nice to have: Existing Microsoft certifications.
- Nice to have: Experience launching AI agents, Copilot solutions or consumption-based offers.
- Nice to have: Experience working across two sales organizations or after an acquisition.
Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $188,000.00 to $200,000.00 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay.
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. When it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
- Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
- Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring
- Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plan's benefits. For more information, see our US benefits website at wwt.com/us-benefits.
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for all!
If you require accessibility accommodation(s) or adjustment during any stage of the hiring
process, please let your WWT Recruiter know. The recruiter will work with you to understand your needs and help ensure an accessible experience throughout the interview process.
If you have any questions or concerns about this posting, please email taposting@wwt.com
World Wide Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Requirements:Why WWT?
World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.
Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class
partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities.
With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!
What is the Microsoft Business Acceleration Team and why join?
As Portfolio Manager, Frontier Activation, you turn factory-ready Microsoft offers, AI agents and reusable assets into field adoption across WWT and Softchoice. You connect internal sales, Microsoft POD teams and field sellers with the training, tools and handoffs needed to engage customers. You lead the Frontier Activation Steering Committee, recommend launch priorities and track customer deployment and usage. Factories and contributing teams retain build ownership. The factories build. This role activates, orchestrates and proves the outcome.
What will you be doing?
Own the activation portfolio—not every build, training session or deployment. Lead the decision process, coordinate readiness and field activation, and measure results.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Frontier Activation Steering Committee. Present launch-ready offers and agents, surface dependencies and risks, and track decisions, escalations and next steps.
- Recommend launch priorities and sequencing based on readiness, market demand, capacity and Microsoft priorities. Secure steering committee decisions and coordinate the approved roadmap.
- Maintain one portfolio view from factory-ready output through field activation, customer deployment and adoption. Track upstream factory dependencies without owning build backlogs.
- Maintain early visibility into expected factory outputs, target readiness dates and dependencies so activation teams can plan ahead. Factories retain ownership of build backlogs and execution.
- Run intake and readiness reviews so each offer, agent or asset has an owner, clear dependencies and a launch decision.
- Coordinate owner sign-offs for positioning, seller materials, technical and deployment readiness, CSP, Azure Marketplace and measurement. Escalate launch blockers; technical approval, publishing and delivery stay with accountable teams.
- Set the activation plan for each offer, agent or asset: audience, target accounts, timing, training and success measures.
- Coordinate train-the-trainer plans with Enablement, Microsoft POD and specialty-seller teams before broader field rollout. Align audiences, content, timing and handoffs; Enablement owns broad field training.
- Agree handoff owners and next steps with Enablement, Programs, Sales and Delivery; those teams execute their activities.
- Own the reporting view for each offer and agent, from factory-ready output to field use, customer engagement, deployment and active usage. Maintain dashboards with reporting and analytics support as needed, and report deployment velocity, usage, results and blockers to leadership and Microsoft.
- Lead quarterly portfolio reviews and recommend whether to scale, improve, pause or retire offers, agents and reusable assets based on field performance, customer adoption and value. Secure steering committee approval for lifecycle decisions and coordinate agreed next steps with accountable owners.
- Own quarterly SPF proof of execution (POE), covering COE / enablement evidence, deployment velocity, usage and available commercial outcomes tied to activated offers.
- Create a repeatable process to capture and share Microsoft-specific win stories and case studies. Use standard templates and a shared repository to document customer challenges, solutions, adoption and results. Coordinate validation, approvals and regular sharing with Sales, Delivery and Marketing.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years in portfolio, program, product or go-to-market management in a technology partner or professional services environment.
- Experience managing intake, readiness and priorities across competing stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft co-sell, CSP, Azure Marketplace and consumption-based offers.
- Executive facilitation skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Experience coordinating launches across sales, enablement, marketing and technical delivery teams.
- Ability to define outcome measures and use data to guide portfolio decisions.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication with senior leaders and Microsoft stakeholders.
- Ability to earn the Microsoft certifications required by the SPF program within 90 days of start.
- Nice to have: PMP, PgMP or a comparable program management credential.
- Nice to have: Existing Microsoft certifications.
- Nice to have: Experience launching AI agents, Copilot solutions or consumption-based offers.
- Nice to have: Experience working across two sales organizations or after an acquisition.
Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $188,000.00 to $200,000.00 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay.
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. When it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
- Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
- Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring
- Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plan's benefits. For more information, see our US benefits website at wwt.com/us-benefits.
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for all!
If you require accessibility accommodation(s) or adjustment during any stage of the hiring
process, please let your WWT Recruiter know. The recruiter will work with you to understand your needs and help ensure an accessible experience throughout the interview process.
If you have any questions or concerns about this posting, please email taposting@wwt.com
World Wide Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
#LI-KB2
#LI-Remote
Requirements:Why WWT?
World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.
Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class
partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities.
With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!
What is the Microsoft Business Acceleration Team and why join?
As Portfolio Manager, Frontier Activation, you turn factory-ready Microsoft offers, AI agents and reusable assets into field adoption across WWT and Softchoice. You connect internal sales, Microsoft POD teams and field sellers with the training, tools and handoffs needed to engage customers. You lead the Frontier Activation Steering Committee, recommend launch priorities and track customer deployment and usage. Factories and contributing teams retain build ownership. The factories build. This role activates, orchestrates and proves the outcome.
What will you be doing?
Own the activation portfolio—not every build, training session or deployment. Lead the decision process, coordinate readiness and field activation, and measure results.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Frontier Activation Steering Committee. Present launch-ready offers and agents, surface dependencies and risks, and track decisions, escalations and next steps.
- Recommend launch priorities and sequencing based on readiness, market demand, capacity and Microsoft priorities. Secure steering committee decisions and coordinate the approved roadmap.
- Maintain one portfolio view from factory-ready output through field activation, customer deployment and adoption. Track upstream factory dependencies without owning build backlogs.
- Maintain early visibility into expected factory outputs, target readiness dates and dependencies so activation teams can plan ahead. Factories retain ownership of build backlogs and execution.
- Run intake and readiness reviews so each offer, agent or asset has an owner, clear dependencies and a launch decision.
- Coordinate owner sign-offs for positioning, seller materials, technical and deployment readiness, CSP, Azure Marketplace and measurement. Escalate launch blockers; technical approval, publishing and delivery stay with accountable teams.
- Set the activation plan for each offer, agent or asset: audience, target accounts, timing, training and success measures.
- Coordinate train-the-trainer plans with Enablement, Microsoft POD and specialty-seller teams before broader field rollout. Align audiences, content, timing and handoffs; Enablement owns broad field training.
- Agree handoff owners and next steps with Enablement, Programs, Sales and Delivery; those teams execute their activities.
- Own the reporting view for each offer and agent, from factory-ready output to field use, customer engagement, deployment and active usage. Maintain dashboards with reporting and analytics support as needed, and report deployment velocity, usage, results and blockers to leadership and Microsoft.
- Lead quarterly portfolio reviews and recommend whether to scale, improve, pause or retire offers, agents and reusable assets based on field performance, customer adoption and value. Secure steering committee approval for lifecycle decisions and coordinate agreed next steps with accountable owners.
- Own quarterly SPF proof of execution (POE), covering COE / enablement evidence, deployment velocity, usage and available commercial outcomes tied to activated offers.
- Create a repeatable process to capture and share Microsoft-specific win stories and case studies. Use standard templates and a shared repository to document customer challenges, solutions, adoption and results. Coordinate validation, approvals and regular sharing with Sales, Delivery and Marketing.
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Who's Hiring
- Ramp10
- OPPIZI4
- Oppizi Deutschland4O
- Syneos Health3
- Worldwide Clinical Trials3
Top Industries Hiring
- Media & Entertainment
- Technology & Software
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in activation manager jobs.
- Three or more years of experience in experiential marketing, field marketing, or brand activation
- Demonstrated ability to manage event logistics, vendor relationships, and on-site teams simultaneously
- Proficiency with project management tools and campaign tracking platforms
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for briefing internal teams and external partners
- Willingness to travel frequently and work evenings or weekends during activation periods
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field
Tips for Your Activation Manager Job Search
Quantify campaign results on your resume
Activation managers are judged on execution and results, so your resume should lead with numbers like attendance figures, brand impressions delivered, or sell-through rates tied to activations you managed. Generic event descriptions won't move your application forward.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists activation manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your portfolio to the channel
If you're targeting a sports brand, your portfolio should spotlight venue activations and fan-experience programs. If the employer is a CPG company, center it on retail and sampling campaigns. Matching your examples to the employer's channel gets your application taken seriously.
Decode the job title before you apply
Activation manager postings vary wildly, covering field marketing, partnership fulfillment, and retail display execution. Read the requirements carefully to confirm the role matches your experience, since applying to the wrong type wastes your time and the hiring team's attention.
Prepare activation case studies for interviews
Interviewers for activation manager roles consistently ask you to walk through a past campaign end to end: brief, logistics, on-site execution, and post-activation recap. Rehearsing two or three detailed case studies before your interview gives you a strong answer for almost any question.
Negotiate by anchoring to scope and travel demands
Activation roles often carry heavy travel loads and weekend commitments that standard job descriptions understate. When negotiating, reference the number of events per year and geographic coverage you'll own, since those factors are strong justification for a higher base or travel stipend.
Activation Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most activation managers?
The most active employers for activation managers right now are Ramp, OPPIZI, and Oppizi Deutschland, and the most openings are in New York, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consumer goods companies, sports organizations, and experiential agencies tend to post the most consistently throughout the year.
How many activation manager jobs are remote?
About 87% of activation manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the nature of on-site execution means most roles require at least some field presence. Strategy, planning, and vendor coordination components of the role are most likely to be handled remotely, while event days almost always require in-person attendance.
How do you become an activation manager?
Start by building hands-on experience in event coordination, field marketing, or brand ambassador programs, since employers prioritize demonstrated execution over credentials alone. Progress by taking ownership of full campaign cycles, from pre-event planning through post-activation reporting. A background in marketing or communications helps, but a portfolio of real activations you managed is what moves your application forward.
Can you get an activation manager job with little or no experience?
Employers rarely hire directly into an activation manager title without some hands-on background, but you can build that foundation quickly. Event coordinator roles, brand ambassador positions, and field marketing associate jobs all develop the logistics and stakeholder management skills hiring teams look for. Document every campaign you contribute to and position your early roles around execution responsibilities, not just attendance.
What does the activation manager interview process look like?
Most hiring processes for activation manager roles involve an initial phone or video screen focused on your campaign background, followed by a competency interview where you walk through past activations in detail. Many employers add a practical component, such as presenting a mock activation plan or a case study, before a final round with a senior marketing or brand leader.
Where can I find and apply to activation manager jobs?
You can find and apply to activation manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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