On August 10th, I started a new role with Microsoft as a Director of Community, ending a six month job hunt that eventually I’ll write about. The LinkedIn announcement got a lot of attention (140K impressions as of today) which was fun to see! 🙌
One point of confusion is that I was hired as a Director of Community, not the Director of Community; there’s an assumption that somehow I am overseeing everything that Microsoft does with communities which is not the case. I’ve had people ask me if I can help fix/improve/change a variety of Microsoft community programs, and I’ve had to tell them all that I’m not involved with any of those communities. 🤷 Director at Microsoft is a title not that different from Amazon’s Principal manager, and I’m currently an individual contributor. I hope to be at Microsoft for many years to come!
Read more: I Was Hired by Microsoft as a Director of CommunitySome web site I’ve never heard of wrote up an article about it — or an LLM did if we’re being honest about how most content is written in 2026 — which is a first for any career move I’ve made so it was kind of fun to see. I’ve reproduced the article below in screenshot form as few online things seem to have much permanence nowadays! 🤔
