Account Technology

Microsoft’s Enterprise Team focuses on empowering customers on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience and revenue growth for Microsoft. As an Enterprise Account Technology Strategist, you will have the opportunity to drive digital technology transformation in partnership with your customer, to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes. Paired with an Enterprise Account Executive, leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft product portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies. With a proven history of innovating technical solutions to achieve customers’ business transformation and achieving account growth targets, this role will give the opportunity to combine your technology and industry knowledge to deliver on digital solutions to accelerate your customer’s digital vision. **Responsibilities**: - Customer and Industry Insights - Synthesizes and combines various business insights from his or her team, global best practices, proof points from experience with several countries and regions, and deep industry expertise (e.g., level 200) related to customers and their competitors to conduct forecasting and develop recommendations for managing accounts and subsidiary planning. Ensures that all levels of the organization challenge customers to consider alternatives and adapt strategies, plans, business models, and solutions to insights. - Orchestrates global teams across the organization to gather information, collaborate on performance markers, and identify potential risks in customer accounts. Brings in business and industry insights to address the broader business challenges for the customer. Executes work against the overall business and technical strategy. Participates in business groups to determine needed resources. - Applies deep expertise and thought leadership to identify the right industry prioritized scenarios (IPSs) and industry partners within the customer's vertical industry. Articulates and understands specific industry-related market trends, as well as customer threats, opportunities, and barriers to growth as they relate to the customer's broader industry. Leads with industry knowledge to support customers in solving issues. Helps to drive and create a board-ready message (e.g., sustainability) and controls for customers' compliance alignment. Trusted Advisor - Acts as the "virtual Chief Technical Officer (CTO)/Chief Digital Officer (CDO)" or "go-to" person in established, long-term relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs) and/or business decision makers (BDMs) at the CIO level, and via direct relationship advises on solutions and position Microsoft capabilities to best meet the customer's needs. Drives market share (e.g., cloud, on premise). - Provides Account thought leadership inclusive of information technology (IT), industry, and business strategy knowledge, and shares best practices internally while providing coaching to subsidiary resources. Leverages account thought leadership in partnership with account executives to set strategy, own accountability for outcomes, and lead extended teams. Provides technical guidance to internal teams to position technology while using customer landscape knowledge. Creates connections and feedback loops with Product and Engineering teams. - Leverages a strong knowledge of Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy to address customer's needs. Proactively coordinates with internal and external network of industry experts (e.g., industry-solutions executives, industry-specific partners) to build strong knowledge of the industry and the competitive landscape. Drives and leverages leaders from the partner ecosystem to bridge process gaps. Leverages deep understanding of their customer to share knowledge with extended team and promote customer business perspectives. Partners with others (e.g., enterprise-channel managers) to provide sponsorship and increase impact. - Acts as the voice of the customer, industry, and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the customer to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers) across all levels of the organization. Drives action to ensure that internal teams understand and respond to insights. Articulates the business opportunity for Microsoft based on product gaps. Technology Strategy Formulation - Leads analysis of overall customer needs, outcomes, and blockers. Determines key stakeholders for driving execution on the largest and/or most complex accounts. Partners with global executives to lead overall strategy development (e.g., block identification, partner strategy) to identify and address gaps and drive end solutions. Leads the adoption of technologies by plotting the long-