Research Vice President, Microsoft Licensing

Research Vice President, Microsoft Licensing

Directions on Microsoft is seeking a Microsoft licensing expert to join our rapidly growing Microsoft licensing training and reference guide business.

• Research, understand, and communicate important shifts in Microsoft licensing, including product packaging, usage rights and rules, license compliance tracking and enforcement, and Microsoft’s volume licensing programs.
• Analyze how changes may impact Microsoft’s enterprise customers and partners, including ways that customers and partners can mitigate risks and exploit opportunities.
• Contribute approximately 5,000 words per month to our research and analysis services and deliver briefings to our customers, including several multi‑day Licensing Boot Camps annually.
• Stay up to date on Microsoft licensing programs and rules through reading, conversing with our customers, attending conferences, and maintaining an ongoing dialogue with our many contacts at Microsoft.
• Use your industry experience and acumen to separate substance from marketing hype, and make the complex seem simple without sacrificing accuracy.

• Curious
• Meticulous
• Self‑directed
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely
• Motivated to continuously improve
• Bachelor’s Degree.

• Have significant domain expertise with Microsoft licensing
• Be comfortable interacting with IT executives, press, and Microsoft
• Enjoy deep research and precise writing (You don’t have to be a professional. If you’re the right candidate, we’ll bring you up to speed.)

Directions on Microsoft offers a superb package that includes generous salary, pension, 401(k), vacation, and health benefits. We also offer a relaxed and exceptionally collegial work environment, a flexible work schedule, and zero tolerance for bureaucracy. Travel is moderate and scheduled well in advance. For the right person, this is a once-in-a-lifetime job that provides interesting and rewarding work in an ideal environment.