01
AI Product Marketing
Positioning, narrative, and launch for AI products at enterprise scale. Translating capability into plain language, and into reasons to believe, for the people who decide whether to use it.
- AI
- Future of Work
- Inclusive Design
- Product Marketing
- Disability Inclusion
Bryan Stromer
I help shape how AI gets built, and who it gets built for.
Senior product marketing manager at Microsoft. Harvard Business School '25. Forbes 30 Under 30.
scroll
Currently: Shipping Microsoft's latest AI releases. Speaking on AI, marketing, and inclusion. Based in New York.
At a glance
The short version.
- Chapters so far: Microsoft, Amazon, Google
- 3
Chapters so far: Microsoft, Amazon, Google
- 30 Under 30, Marketing & Advertising, 2020
- Forbes
30 Under 30, Marketing & Advertising, 2020
- MBA '25, and a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua
- HBS
MBA '25, and a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua
- Countries reached by product launches I worked on
- 120+
Countries reached by product launches I worked on
01 · About
Hi, I'm Bryan
When I was a kid, my parents wanted me to practice writing letters. I didn't know who to write to, so I sent one to the CEO of KB Toys explaining why I loved the store and how I thought they could improve it. Mostly: more toys. His secretary called back, and we ended up having a real conversation about how KB Toys differentiated itself from Toys "R" Us. I was hooked. Business wasn't just about selling things. It was strategy, positioning, and understanding people.
What I never had was technology built with me in mind. The products I couldn't use were designed as if I wasn't there, and the stories about people like me were usually written by someone else. That gap is the thing I've spent my career working on: getting the people a product leaves out into the room where it's designed, priced, marketed, and shipped.
Twenty years after that letter, I'm a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, working on our latest AI releases. Before that, I was a senior product manager at Amazon working on customer insights and strategy, and I spent a summer at Verily, Google's life sciences arm, researching inclusive design. A semester in Copenhagen studying IKEA's approach to inclusive design first made the thread visible to me. The years since have been about pulling on it.
Now the thread runs through AI. How generative systems get built over the next few years will shape the next decade of work: what they can do, who they work for, and what assumptions get baked in. If the people who end up using a product aren't part of building it, the product keeps missing them. HBS taught me to operate inside that kind of ambiguity, which, with AI, is basically the job.
02 · Focus
Three threads I keep pulling on.
02
The Future of Work
How generative AI changes what knowledge workers actually do all day, and what that means for the products we build and the adoption curves we're all chasing.
03
Inclusive Product Design
Technology that works for everyone is a design input, not a compliance checkbox. I've spent a decade arguing this, shipping against it, and watching the teams that take it seriously win the customers who notice.
03 · Work
Nine years of launches, from retail to AI.
- 2025–PresentMicrosoftSenior Product Marketing Manager, Copilot Frontier
Positioning and launch marketing for Microsoft's latest AI releases, including the early-access program for AI features and agents.
- 2023–2025Harvard Business SchoolMBA · Lead, Disabled Student Association
General management with a focus on technology and inclusion.
- Summer 2024Verily (Google Life Sciences)MBA Product Intern, Product & User Design
Focused on inclusive design through user research and prototype testing for an AI-powered digital health coach.
- 2022–2023AmazonSenior Product Manager, Customer Insights & Strategy
Customer and competitive research that shaped product and go-to-market priorities across health and retail.
- 2021–2022Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Global Affairs · Schwarzman Scholar
Global affairs with a scholar cohort from more than 100 countries.
- 2019–2022MicrosoftProduct Marketing Manager, Microsoft Store
Retail value proposition, messaging, and editorial direction for store experiences reaching more than a million people a month.
- 2019–2021MicrosoftFounder & Co-Lead, Disability in Marketing
Founded Microsoft's first marketing community for employees with disabilities.
- 2017–2019MicrosoftProduct Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Creative Studio
Creative-led launch work for Microsoft 365, including startup and student activations across 120+ countries with a WeWork partnership.
- 2013–2017Vanderbilt UniversityB.S., Human and Organizational Development · Posse Scholar
Studied how organizations shape behavior, and how they fail the people they don't design for.
04 · Recognition
Selected honors.
Forbes · 2020
Forbes 30 Under 30
Marketing & Advertising, for work on inclusive marketing and disability representation.
ADCOLOR
Mr ADCOLOR
Named for founding and co-leading Disability in Marketing at Microsoft.
ADCOLOR · 2019
ADCOLOR FUTURE
One of the year's emerging leaders in advertising and marketing, committed to advancing inclusion.
Disability:IN · 2019
NextGen Leader of the Year
National recognition for advocacy and leadership in disability inclusion.
05 · Speaking
Selected conversations.
Panels, keynotes, and interviews on disability inclusion, marketing, and how new products reach people.
2025A Call to Men × Match Group Community Conversations
Love in the Time of Swiping: From Digital Rejection to Real Connection
2024ADCOLOR 2024 Off Mute
Pass the Mic (breakout) with Nneka Enurah and Sean Choi
2021PRWeek × Easterseals
Fighting Fears, Suppressing Stigmas, with Angela Williams (Easterseals) and Megan Smith (Amazon)
2020ADCOLOR Everywhere
Americans with Disabilities Act 30th Anniversary (breakout), moderator with Kaitlyn Yang, Tatiana A. Lee and KR Liu
2020Lime Connect
The unique disability perspective: Accessibility @ work
2020Disability:IN #DisabilityAdvantage
Fireside Chat with Disability Rights Activist Judy Heumann
Also on the record
Disability:IN Annual Conference
Speaking on disability inclusion
Out & Equal
Advancing Disability Inclusion and Equality in the Workplace
The One Club for Creativity × WPP
Lunch & Learn: Discussing Disability Inclusion in Marketing
Available for keynotes, panels, and interviews. To invite Bryan, use the form at the bottom of the page.
06 · Writing & Press
What I've written, and what others have written about me.
Two pieces I wrote myself, two written about me, and one interview.
Written by me
2017
I go to a top university, known for its research in disabilities. Yet students like me are an afterthought.
The Washington Post
Written as a Vanderbilt senior for the Grade Point section, on what campuses get wrong about the students they claim to study.
2013
The Choice: a student blogger on the road to college
The New York Times
A series for the Times college admissions blog, written during my senior year of high school.
Profiled in
2019
The New Faces Of Disability: Busting Stereotypes And Bending The World To Fit Their Needs
Forbes
Written about me by Denise Brodey, alongside other leaders changing how disability is seen and served.
6th edition
“Nothing About Us, Without Us”
SAGE · Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design
Featured as a Rising Star in the marketing textbook by Altstiel, Grow, Augustine, and Jenkins, on building authentic disability representation.
07 · Advocacy
The thread underneath everything above.
I founded Disability in Marketing at Microsoft in 2019, the company's first marketing community for employees with disabilities, and co-led it through 2021. I also co-led the disability community at ADCOLOR, the leading organization for diversity in advertising and marketing.
At Harvard Business School, I led the Disabled Student Association, working with the administration and the broader community on policy, access, and how the next generation of business leaders thinks about inclusion.
This isn't a side interest. It's the reason I do the work in the first place.
Watch: the argument in my own words
From ADCOLOR, where I've spoken and co-led the disability community. Watch on Instagram ↗
Shared by ADCOLOR, where I've spoken and co-led the disability community. This is the part I care about most.
08 · Moments
Where the work took me.
Stages, classrooms, and conversations that shaped how I think about marketing, AI, and inclusion.
09 · Contact
Let's talk.
I'm glad to talk about AI, product marketing, the future of work, or what it takes to build technology that's genuinely useful for everyone. If you're building something and want to make sure it works for people who've been left out, that's the conversation I'm always up for. The fastest way to reach me is email.
Speaking inquiries