Data & AI Solution Sales Lead
Job Description
Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places they simply couldn't anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking – a cloud-enabled world.
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As an Azure Analytics, Data & AI Specialist you will be a senior solution sales leader within our corporate sales organization working with our most important customers. You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed quarterly Data & AI revenue and usage/consumption targets in your assigned accounts.
You will be a trusted advisor and an Analytics and Data & AI subject matter expert with core capability and expertise in Data Modernization, Analytics and AI. You will work with customers to leverage data to help them achieve their business priorities and help guide customer's journey through Analytics-led Azure Data transformation. You will help customers evaluate their applications and business requirements, recommend solutions that meet their requirements and demonstrate these solutions to win the technical decision.
You will need to support customers to remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction. You will help our customers take advantage of our unique Data platform and leading Analytics & AI solutions to realize the value of digital transformation.
- 40% of your time will be spent with customers identifying and surfacing new engagements that align with the customer's business strategy. You will work with partners and others at Microsoft, as well as use our core tools, targeted account lists to identify and engage prioritized customers.You will be required to be disciplined in business-management, adaptable to a culture of accountability and build a strong and active business network.
- 40% of your time will be spent on being the key technical leader, trusted advisor and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy and adopt Microsoft Data & AI solutions. You will own winning the technical decision at customers for sales opportunities and usage scenarios, through tailoring your message, bringing ideas to customers, engaging with them to show our technology differentiation, and guiding them in decision making. You will lead presentations and solution demonstrations to explain and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft's Data & AI solutions, and how we can make their businesses more successful.
- 20% of your time will be spent on influencing the Microsoft Data & AI go to market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers. You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving work that results in business impact for customers, partners and Microsoft. We encourage thought leadership and we encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills and competitive readiness. You will therefore be required to attain and maintain required certifications.
- do you have 5+ experience in selling business solutions to enterprise customer with a focus on data platform and analytics & ai technologies leading and orchestrating large cloud engagements
- do you have data and ai technical knowledge, expert in two or more data estate workloads like e teradata, oracle exadata, ibm netezza, sap (hana, bw), hdinsight, hadoop, cloudera/hortonworks, apache spark, snowflake, mapr, aws (redshift, glue), google (bigquery), memsql, marklogic, qubole, pivotal (greenplum), actian (avalanche), alibaba (maxcompute).
- do you haveeffective territory/account management experience and do you understand the partner ecosystem and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs
qualifications
requirements:
- 5+ years experienceselling business solutions to enterprise customers with a focus on data platform and analytics & ai technologies
- 3+ years experiencein a consulting/solutions sales position working with solutions that include data warehouse, hadoop, spark, data lake, sql server, machine learning, and/or other comparable analytics solutions.
preferences:
- executive presence.experience and expertise selling to senior business decision makers by aligning & reinforcing the value of the solution to the customer's overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities and decision criteria.
- data & ai platform.understanding of microsoft azure data & ai products. the position requires the ability to articulate and demonstrate the business value of microsoft's solutions and have a firm understanding of microsoft's strategies and products relative to major microsoft competitors
- expertise in two or more data estate workloadslike teradata, oracle exadata, ibm netezza, sap (hana, bw), hdinsight, hadoop, cloudera/hortonworks, apache spark, snowflake, mapr, aws (redshift, glue), google (bigquery), memsql, marklogic, qubole, pivotal (greenplum), actian (avalanche), alibaba (maxcompute)
- account management.effective territory/account management: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder and executive communication, needs analysis, value engineering, services/partner engagement, opportunity management, pipeline management, large dollar licensing and deal negotiation
- problem solver.ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies
- collaborative.orchestrate and influence virtual teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead v-teams through influence
- leadership.experience leading large cloud engagements especially those involving strategic analytics & ai solutions, data platform modernization and migration and related
- competitive landscape.knowledge of enterprise software solutions and platform competitor landscape
- partners.understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs
- certificationswith azure data engineer, azure ai engineer or equivalent industry certifications preferred
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
IT / Computers – Software
Function:
IT , Sales – Engineering / Technical / IT , Sales / Business Development
Roles:
Software Engineer / Programmer