Technology Specialists: Intern Opportunities

Technology Specialists: Intern Opportunities

Date posted: Jan 22, 2025

Job number: 1802584

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Profession - Technology Sales

Employment type: Internship

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Technology Specialist Intern, you will engage with and guide customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. You will leverage sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. You will understand customer needs, collect customer feedback, and provide strategic input to customers. You will act as an orchestration point for technical resources and work to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in French language.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of current customer context and anticipate next steps. Use product expertise to build credibility with customers.
• Review customer interactions and raise competitive information to account teams to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.
• Contribute to product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback.
• Tailor Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products.
• Contribute to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements and coaching from senior colleagues. Leverage partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment.
• Consume and leverage readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practice expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.