Executive Impact Portfolio · Generative AI & Agents
Megan Dohnal
Sr. Director of Business Strategy, GenAI + Agents (Microsoft) · Product Marketing & GTM Leader · 15+ years, 3 global tech leaders
A 0→1
category builder and AI growth operator who repeatedly launches and
scales startup-like businesses inside global technology leaders. She helped
bring Microsoft's AI portfolio to market, launching core Copilot experiences
(Pages, Notebooks, and first-party agents) while scaling
Microsoft Loop, the canvas that now powers them, to 8M+ users. Today, she turns frontier-AI
competition (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Salesforce) into executive strategy,
field readiness, and multi-million-dollar business outcomes.
M365 Copilot + Agents PMM
AI Agents & Category Creation
Frontier Competitive Strategy
Deal Intelligence
Global GTM (46 countries)
AI Monetization
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Career Arc
A repeating pattern of building and scaling the new
2009–2012
Microsoft
Sr. Global Marketing Mgr, CMG
2012–2013
T-Mobile
Sr. Product Manager
2013–2015
Amazon (consultant)
Product Mgmt Lead, Amazon Mobile Ad Network
2016–2023
Microsoft
Head of PMM, Outlook & Loop
2023–2025
Microsoft
Director PMM, M365 Copilot
2025–Now
Microsoft
Sr. Director, Business Strategy, M365 Copilot + Agents
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AI Impact at a Glance
Adoption, reach, monetization, and readiness
8M+
Loop users at goal; the canvas now powers Copilot Pages toward a +30% MAU goal
540K
Copilot Pages MAU reached in its first quarter
172K
Customers reached at Ignite across two top-rated sessions
150+
Press articles at the Copilot launch (~61% featuring Pages)
+$30
Added license value to the M365 SKU with Notebooks and Copilot first-party agents
14+ data packs
In-depth AI and Agents insights delivered to division sales leaders each quarter
9.8/10
Seller NPS across competitive selling sessions (Compete in Q4, Anthropic, and more)
58%+
Open rate on the weekly LT AI compete brief (~200 leaders & sellers)
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Generative AI & Agents Portfolio
What she shipped, defined, and defended
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AI Products Shipped
Copilot Chat + Pages: led the launch (Satya demo, 150+ press articles, 70K+ views on the top blog), reaching 540K MAU in its first quarter.
- Copilot Notebooks: launched at Work Trend Index, authoring the value proposition and messaging, and unlocking +$30 of M365 Copilot license value.
- Calendar AI (MetaOS): led the v-team across Outlook, Places, and Teams to close a top customer gap.
- Microsoft Loop: launched the AI-first canvas as a standalone app, reaching its +30% MAU goal, and it now powers Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks.
✦
Agents & New Categories
- Planner, Analyst, and Research agents: defined the licensing and experience that became a keynote proof point for Copilot Agents at Ignite.
- AI Agent category: partnered with IDC and engineering to define the category and spend model for accurate market sizing and competitor market share.
- Agentic GTM: incubated new agentic product categories in the FY26 plan and aligned cross-functional market entry.
- Copilot Studio & Agent Builder: sharpened Gov Cloud compete for agent-building in sovereign scenarios, working with product for parity with Google.
- Self-serve insights: piloted agent-powered compete Q&A to scale answers to the field and tap into M365 Copilot and Agent knowledge.
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Compete vs. Frontier Models
- OpenAI Frontier and Anthropic Cowork: built and delivered "Compete with Confidence" and "Anthropic Compete" in three days, arming 300+ sellers.
- Teardowns: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Salesforce Agentforce, used by account teams including Walmart.
- External research: two GLG studies (GenAI vendor selection and post-sales deployment) plus a Gartner agent pilot-to-scaled deployment workshop.
- Market signal: using Gartner data, recommended AI-maturity segmentation across our GTM motions, implemented for Q4 to drive more targeted conversations.
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Monetization & Growth
- Copilot Chat + Pages licensing: brought three options to the LT and secured inclusion in the M365 Copilot license.
- Copilot Notebooks: added license value to the $30 SKU, plus a free path to migrate Loop users and accelerate adoption.
- Project Synergi: put premium AI into SMB SKUs, feeding the FY26 growth strategy toward $10B+ Copilot revenue by FY29.
- Pricing influence: fed win/loss and market research into ME3/ME5 and Copilot pricing decisions.
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Signature Plays
Each analyzed across five lenses
Challenge
Action
Innovation
Business Impact
Leadership Influence
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Launching Microsoft Loop: the AI-first canvas from zero
Microsoft, Head of PMM Outlook & Loop · 2016–2023
0 → 8M users
!Challenge
Microsoft had not shipped a net-new Office app in 10 years. Loop had no name, no category, and no business model against Notion, Coda, and Google.
▸Action
Owned the end-to-end launch (naming, logo, messaging, sales enablement, press, keynotes) and built the ENT, SMB, and EDU business model, securing full LT approval.
✦Innovation
Ran a discrete-choice "premium value" study to define the paywall, and set premium principles (no customer takebacks) that shaped the roadmap and future SKU model.
▲Business Impact
Scaled to 8M total users and 50%+ awareness in ENT/SMB. Loop's canvas now powers Copilot Notebooks and Copilot Pages.
◆Leadership Influence
Aligned BG marketing, product, finance, business planning, and LT on one model, won inclusion in the M365 SKU, and earned a seat in roadmap rationalization.
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Shipping Copilot's product surface: Pages, Notebooks & Agents
Microsoft, Director of Product Marketing, M365 Copilot · 2023–2025
540K MAU · Ignite
!Challenge
Stand up brand-new GenAI surfaces fast enough to reach parity with Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity, while hitting aggressive MAU/DAU and retention targets.
▸Action
Led the Copilot Pages launch (Satya demo, 150+ press) and the Copilot Notebooks launch at Work Trend Index, driving global messaging across 46 countries and FY26 growth planning.
✦Innovation
Defined the Planner agent experience that became a keynote proof point for Copilot Agents at Ignite, and validated GenAI use cases (JTBD) for BDMs and ITDMs to shape the roadmap.
▲Business Impact
Copilot Pages hit 540K MAU in its first quarter, Ignite reached 172K customers, and Notebooks unlocked +$30 of license value toward the 80% retention goal.
◆Leadership Influence
Secured LT approval on Copilot Pages licensing, led a team of 3 PMMs, and carried the customer voice into the PM organization.
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Building the AI compete and deal-intelligence engine
Microsoft, Director of Business Strategy, GenAI + Agents · 2025–Current
Multi-$M influenced
!Challenge
Enterprise AI competition intensified fast (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce, Glean). The Americas field needed real-time readiness to protect multi-$M renewals and win new AI and agent deals.
▸Action
Built a closed-loop system (analytics, win/loss, enablement, deal acceleration), authored a weekly AI compete brief to ~200 leaders/sellers (58%+ open), and delivered 14 industry data packs.
✦Innovation
Stood up the WW–Americas Compete Council, drove a Competitive Risk Score into the Always-on Selling tool, and ran GLG studies plus a Gartner workshop that surfaced the 6% to 20% deployment shift.
▲Business Impact
Influenced multi-$M outcomes vs. Google, Salesforce, and OpenAI. "Compete-in-30" reached 400+ sellers at 9.8/10 NPS, and GCC teardowns catalyzed new compete funding.
◆Leadership Influence
Advises senior LT on TAM, share, and AI signals, owns the ABS section of the quarterly SSE MBR (influencing ME3/ME5 pricing), and partnered with IDC to define the AI Agent category.
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Foundations: global brand marketing and ad-tech P&L ownership
Microsoft CMG, T-Mobile & Amazon Ads · 2009–2015
Early 0→1 proof
!Challenge
Grow global consumer brands and stand up brand-new advertising businesses (a Microsoft ad network, Amazon's AMAN) in fast-shifting, competitive markets.
▸Action
Ran marketing for Microsoft consumer brands across 46 countries, and owned the P&L and OKRs for a new Amazon mobile advertising business.
✦Innovation
Drove digital-first innovation (programmatic, mobile media, QR-to-dynamic content) and launched transparent-bidding technology to market.
▲Business Impact
Beat purchase intent +35%, retention +11%, recognition +16%, and revenue +18%, and exceeded the Amazon 2013 revenue goal by 5%.
◆Leadership Influence
Led teams of up to 4 (with 100% retention at T-Mobile), and merged online and mobile businesses to unlock scale.
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Additional Impact & Breadth
The full body of Connect-documented work
Field Enablement & Training
- Compete WW assets across Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Salesforce.
- ATU Compete Learning Day on enterprise GenAI vendor selection (Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, Agentforce).
- "Compete-in-30" seller series tied to FY26 H2 compete priorities.
- GCC Compete Learning Circle covering Copilot Studio and Agent Builder in sovereign scenarios.
- Google, OpenAI, and Glean field troubleshooting to unblock active compete deals.
Deal Insights & Pricing
- Deal Insights program with win/loss deep dives across marquee accounts (Kwik Trip, Salt River Project, Mass General, CIBC).
- Owned the ABS deal-insights readout at the FY26 Q3 SSE MBR.
- Shaped ME3/ME5 and Copilot pricing using signals from competitive insights and major deals (Wells Fargo, Dell, WTW).
- Weekly deal-insights and competitive-news digest for LT, GTM, and sellers.
- Updated the interview guide with E3/E5 angles to speed field pivots vs. Google and OpenAI.
Tooling, Data & Governance
- Always-on Selling (AoS) improvements: high-risk renewal flags, data integrity, and competitor tracking.
- Seller's Edge compete page unifying scattered assets into one accessible hub.
- Compete Score partnership with Worldwide to adapt the framework for the Americas.
- 14 OU data packs and a VSU whitepaper, with IDC AI product mapping for accurate TAM.
- US Fed AI budgetary research and playbook to win new business.
Planning, Comms & People
- Weekly Market Insights & Compete newsletter, plus The Insight Edge compete brief.
- FY27 SSE Insights GTM Planning Charter, embedding compete and deal insights as core inputs.
- ABS Compete Council (WW) and the Google Compete v-team.
- Organization and team leadership, plus Neurodiversity at Microsoft community.
- Recurring Executive Briefing Center speaker on secure, enterprise-ready AI.
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Unique Executive Value Proposition
The throughline across every role
She ships the AI products, and she wins the AI market.
Builds 0→1 AI categories
Loop, Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, and first-party agents, each taken from concept to a defined category and into market.
Ships AI products, fast
Turns ambiguity into launches on tight timelines, from a two-week Copilot Pages announce to a three-day competitive response.
Wins the AI compete war
Converts frontier moves from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Salesforce into executive strategy and same-week field readiness.
Agentic, AI-first operator
Helps define the AI agent category and uses AI and agents to scale her team's output and the field's self-serve access.
Orchestrates One Microsoft
Aligns product, finance, sales, marketing, and partners into one motion, from worldwide corporate teams to the frontline seller.
Education
- Whitworth University, B.A. International Business & Economics, Summa Cum Laude
- University of Washington, M.S. User-Centered Design, Certificate
- Northwestern University, M.B.A.
Recognition
- 2× MVP Award (Microsoft)
- Growth Mindset Award (Microsoft)
- Gold Star Award (Microsoft)
- Quarterly Platinum Award (T-Mobile)
Strengths
- GenAI + Agents Product Marketing & GTM
- AI Agents & Category Creation
- Competitive Intelligence & Positioning
- Cross-Org & Team Leadership
- AI Sales Strategy
