Solution Area Specialists
Job Description
Why Microsoft:
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking — a cloud-enabled world.
The Azure Data & AI Specialist Director is a senior leader within our Enterprise Sales organisation, developing and managing a team of high calibre specialists to help our largest customers modernise their data and drive value from analytics, AI and IOT.
Leading a large team, role will require deep technical expertise and business acumen and is a thought leader that can represent the Data and AI solution area with customers and Microsoft internal stakeholders.
What skills or experiences do you need to have
There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one:
- Be a thought leading industry expert and drive growth planning for Data & AI.
- Have a broad understanding of technology trends, market forces and industry imperatives.
- Build strong connections with priority partners to create a meaningful extension of the team's sales and technical reach.
- Inspire people, builds multifaceted teams, and attracts top talent.
- Can interpret complex market signals to make critical decisions in how the team goes to market.
- Is an influencer and thought leader with business and technical customers, effectively building trust and deep relationships
- Translate Microsoft technology breadth into business impact through solid business and professional skills in order to accelerate the customer's digital transformation.
- Deep engagement with other business Groups such as WW Commercial Business, Account teams and Customer success team in order to create a unified and holistic sales approach.
- Build strong connections with priority partners in order to create a meaningful extension of the team's sales and technical reach.
required/minimum qualifications:
- 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- or bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business administration, or related field and 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
IT / Computers – Software
Function:
IT , Sales – Engineering / Technical / IT , Sales / Business Development
Roles:
Software Engineer / Programmer
