Senior Partner Technology Strategist

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The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with our partners, empowering people and organizations to achieve more.

Together with our partners, we create solutions which help organizations enrich their employee experiences, reinvent their customer engagements, reshape their business processes and bend the curve on innovation.

As a Partner Technology Strategist, you will drive the strategic technology plans with our partners and deliver success for our partners and Microsoft. This amazing opportunity will allow you to work deeply with our partners focusing on Microsoft’s technology priorities and grow their solutions and services on Microsoft’s technologies. You will leverage your deep technology strategy acumen, coaching and aiding our partners to develop impactful solutions and services for our customers. Leveraging your deep technical experience, you will validate our partners’ technology strategy and development plans, assist them in growing their Microsoft’s technical capabilities and capacity, and aid them in early reference customer wins, to realize consumption and usage results of their solutions and services.

Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our partners & customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make partner & customer-centered decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. To learn more about Microsoft’s mission, please visit: Microsoft Mission.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 6+ years of technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 9+ years of technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with relevant technologies (e.g., hyperscale clouds, Microsoft tools and platforms).

Responsibilities

• Be the Chief Technology Strategist to our partners: You synthesize and combine various business & technical insights from the global technology landscape, your colleagues, global best practices, proof points from experience, and deep industry expertise related to partners/customers and their competitors.
• Be the Advocate: You act as the voice of our partners and internal advocate. You orchestrate internal teams to ensure sufficient technical resources for demands when appropriate.
• Trusted Advisor: You provide analysis of overall partner needs for some of the largest and most complex accounts and advise on gaps that would benefit from Microsoft solutions.
• Trusted Advisor: You partner with a line-of-business leader or senior executive within a large-scale or high-impact partner organization to articulate how Microsoft technology/services will meet future business needs and enable long-term growth and success.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

At Microsoft, we are dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. We believe that technology is a powerful force for good and that meaningful innovation will contribute to a brighter world where everyone has access to the benefits and opportunities created by technology. Our people are what makes us one of the world’s most dynamic companies. Come as you are, thrive in an environment that helps you achieve more, and do what you love every day.