Gloribel has built a career in marketing and communications, gaining hands-on experience at companies like Sprinklr and Microsoft, where she works on partner strategy and go-to-market planning. Her path shows how skills like project management, creative thinking, and understanding your audience can open doors across the tech industry. If you're curious about what a career in marketing or communications actually looks like day to day, she's proof that there's a real place for you in it.
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Microsoft Marketing manager in Tech with experience from multiple companies.
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Key quotes
“No one's going to come to you with a job. You have to go out there and you have to reach out for informationals, reach out for more information.”
Gloribel Mondragon, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft
“Building a network, it's like building friends, right? Like, it's very easy to kind of start connecting with others, but it's maintaining that.”
Gloribel Mondragon, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft
“All of the decisions that I made were more Microsoft leaning for sure — like, all roads kind of led back.”
Gloribel Mondragon, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft
“I feel like I was a victim of a little bit of age discrimination. I'm obviously maybe a little bit younger than some of the other folks that I was kind of going for with some of these roles.”
Gloribel Mondragon, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft
“There's such a great kind of scope of what a marketer can be. It's not just quote unquote creating campaigns — it could be managing programs, thinking about the right market, the right messaging, the right marketing approach.”
Gloribel Mondragon, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft
Career highlights
Reach out to people at companies you want to work for, even if there's no open job listed — informational interviews can lead to real opportunities.
Gloribel cold-emailed Microsoft employees she found on the careers page, asked for one-on-ones, and eventually got offered a vendor role through those connections after not getting a different position she interviewed for.
Be intentional about the jobs you take — pick roles that build toward the career you actually want, not just whatever comes next.
Every company Gloribel worked at after Microsoft — Amazon, Sprinklr, Avalara, Accenture — was chosen because it had a connection back to Microsoft or the kind of partner marketing work she wanted to do there.
Build your network like a friendship: starting it is easy, but you have to keep showing up to maintain it.
Gloribel points out that people often network only when job hunting but go quiet when they're happy. She says staying consistently connected — even just checking in every few weeks — pays off long-term.
Be a constant self-learner — in tech especially, you'll often have to figure out new tools and products on your own.
Gloribel says that alongside formal education, a huge part of her job is just going through documentation, reading online, and learning new Microsoft products as they launch — no one hands you all the answers.
Put your bonuses straight into savings and retirement accounts — don't let lifestyle inflation eat your financial wins.
Gloribel makes over $100K with cash and stock bonuses on top. She keeps her salary for everyday spending and funnels bonuses into savings and her 401K, stressing the importance of planning for the future.
Stand up for your experience, especially if you're younger or from an underrepresented background — don't let others underestimate what you've built.
Gloribel shares that she experienced age discrimination as a younger woman of color and had to advocate for the legitimacy of her experience when going for certain roles.