Steve Clayton

About Steve Clayton

I’m the Vice President of Communications Strategy at Microsoft. In this role, I…

Experience

1. Vice President, Microsoft Communications Strategy

   Microsoft

   Jul 2023 — Present

   As a communications leader with more than 25 years of experience at Microsoft across technical, strategy, storytelling, and communications, I have worked closely with Microsoft’s CEO and senior leadership team. During this time, I have helped shape communication around major acquisitions, CEO change, Public Affairs, company culture and helped bring a storytelling discipline across all of these endeavours. In this role, I lead the newly formed Microsoft Communications Strategy Team – reporting to our Chief Communications Officer. The primary focus of the role and team is to reinvent how we run the communications business at Microsoft – using AI. This includes automation of key operations as well as building a state-of-the-art measurement and insights platform. In addition, the team and I are responsible for media management, agency management, Microsoft PR events, community, and CEO demo. I also serve as a company spokesperson, representing Microsoft with media, customers, and other stakeholders in discussing Microsoft’s AI strategy, products, and technologies. Prior to this role, I led Global Public Affairs for Microsoft, reporting to the company’s President and Vice Chair and was deeply involved in AI policy and the Microsoft/Activision deal as well as sustainability, public policy, privacy, cybersecurity, environmental sustainability, human rights, legal issues and litigation, accessibility, and corporate social responsibility. Outside of work, I ride my bike slowly up hills, ride a snowboard uncontrollably down hills and support Liverpool Football Club through similar peaks and valleys.

Skills

• Account Management
• Management
• General Management
• Proposal Writing
• Networking
• Online Marketing
• Digital Media
• Blogging
• Start-Ups
• Saas
• Strategic Communications
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Social Media Marketing
• Marketing
• Digital Strategy
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Product Management
• Creative Direction
• Strategy
• Digital Marketing
• Cloud Computing
• Social Media
• Integrated Marketing
• Research
• Online Advertising
• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Strategy
• Product Marketing
• Crm
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Public Relations
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Business Strategy
• Leadership
• Corporate Communications
• Business Development
• Facebook
• E-Commerce
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Mobile Devices