# Surface Category Manager- Small Business Direct

OverviewMicrosoft Customer and Partner Solutions-Core (MCAPS) accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. Within MCAPS-Core, the Windows & Device Sales (WDS) team is transforming how the world interacts with AI through the Windows platform, devices, and Microsoft Cloud services. WDS leads Sales and Go-To-Market for the Windows devices business, delivering innovative, AI-powered device and cloud experiences through our partner ecosystem to customers around the world. Within WDS, the Consumer Sales Organization (CSO) creates value with our partners by bringing innovative consumer solutions po

- **Id**: 4131795
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-surface-category-manager-small-business-direct>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T02:05:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 13
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7714
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 106400
- **Max**: 203600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 203600

## Technologies

- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Management years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.856
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:42:56Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 203600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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