Sr. Digital Solution Area Specialist- App Innovation

Overview

The Small, Medium, and Corporate team helps businesses achieve their digital transformation goals by matching customer challenges with Microsoft solutions. Located in either a Digital Sales center, or a local subsidiary, you will help our managed customers across industries, company sizes and territories to identify their needs and opportunities. One of the fastest growing customer segments in the technology industry, you will help customers get to the cloud across Microsoft solution areas like Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Applications and Infrastructure, and Data and AI.

Microsoft is uniquely positioned to win “App Innovation” workloads to help customers’ Digital Transformation journey. The Microsoft Application Innovation business is one of the fastest growing businesses within with a portfolio of products spanning across Managed/PaaS services of Azure Platform, PowerApps and Developer Productivity tools like GitHub and Visual Studio. Microsoft is hiring Specialist sellers for Application Innovation business to deliver sales goals in this dynamic and fast-growing enterprise marketAs an Application Innovation Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader, with technical acumen, selling the Microsoft Application innovation portfolio to our largest enterprise customers. You will manage CxO level business relationships, understand customer challenges and priorities, identify modernization opportunities across the customer's application estate, build a business case for innovation, lead an architectural design session, close the business, and build a plan for deployment of app modernization/ innovation projects. You will do this with your deep Industry knowledge, technical acumen and by leading a virtual team of resources across Microsoft and Partner ecosystem. You will spend 70% of your time on customer-facing activities driving sales and technical conversations, 15% in internal meetings for collaboration and 15% to maintain business hygiene like reporting and managing pipeline.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

Required/Minimum Qualifications9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.Additional or Preferred Qualifications11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experienceOR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience6+ years of solution or services sales experience.ProfessionalSales or Consulting experience with data center migration or application modernization/ Cloud Native projectsExperience selling Cloud Application Platform services, database, Developer Productivity tools, Low Code tools with a demonstrated track record in working towards sales goals.Industry knowledge of application landscape and trends in verticals like FSI, Retail, Manufacturing etc. is a plus.Executive presence with experience selling to Chief Digital Officers, Head of Products, and enterprise solution architects.Able to work cohesively with members of Microsoft sales & services, System Integrator partners and marketing.TechnicalTechnical passion with good understanding of cloud architectural patterns leveraging managed or Platform-As-A-Service offerings, rearchitecting monolithic applications with cloud native technologies, related databases and modern DevOps/ DevSecOps practices.Subject Matter Expertise with one or more of the following:Experience

modernizing Java

applications on cloud (e.g. Jboss EAP, Spring Cloud, VM Ware, Tanzu, Pivotal Cloud Foundry) - preferredExperience with

Cloud Native technologies

like Containers, Kubernetes, Serverless and APIs. (e.g., Amazon/Google/Azure Kubernetes Service, RedHat OpenShift) – preferredExperience with

Enterprise Integration

Services and API Management (e.g. like MuleSoft) - preferredUnderstanding of Low Code platforms like Power Platform) and associated use-cases is a plusExperience with competitive Application development services across public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Oracle) is a plus.

Responsibilities

ResponsibilitiesCreate “buy-in” vision with key decision makersBuild executive relationships with key decision makers and generate excitement around Microsoft solutions’ value to influence long-term strategic directionUnderstand customer’s application footprint, digital transformation needs, business and technology strategy and compete landscape to map customer’s current and desired state and expectationsCollaborate with the customers to outline business priorities and understand the buying decision criteria and timelineLead the solution design with technical acumenStrong presentation and communication skills with ability to demo and whiteboard application architecturesBy collaborating with a team of technical resources (e.g., cloud solution architects and partners) , conduct an architecture design session and build a Proof of Concept to showcase how solution meets customer’s requirements.Engage Partner to maximize business resultsBring together and land Microsoft solutions with Partner solutions, fully leverage the synergistic effect with our partners.Share practical knowledge and co-sell with them to make deals faster and bigger.Build App Innovation business case to substantiate the value of the solutionLeverage various commercial offers and programs to negotiate, close the deal and successfully displace competition.Lead multi-million-dollar deals requiring orchestration of virtual teams composed of industry, solution, technical, licensing & legal team members.Drive Sales Excellence: Exceed sales / cloud consumption quota by driving pipeline management and accurate forecasting.Be the Voice of the Customer: Share feedback, best practices to influence Microsoft Go-To-Market and product strategiesWe encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, and professional skills. You will be recognized for thought leadership, sharing, learning, and driving business impact for customers, partners, and Microsoft.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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