FULL_TIME
10+
Senior Cloud & AI Platforms Sales Specialist
11/22/2025
The role involves developing technical and consultative selling skills while engaging with customers to assess and qualify sales opportunities. It requires collaboration across organizations to drive and close significant value opportunities and to analyze business and emerging opportunities for customer innovation.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Develop technical and consultative selling skills. Build deep business acumen and future-ready capabilities. Customer Engagement: Assesses and qualifies sales opportunities following sales frameworks and guidelines, ensuring alignment with AI-enhanced sales methodologies and best practices. Participates in strategy development for driving and closing moderately complex, significant value opportunities. Collaborates across organizations (e.g., Account Team Unit [ATU], CSU, ISD, GPS) to contribute to deal orchestration and handoffs throughout the deal lifecycle. Utilizes best practices to earn customer buy-in, secure deals, and mitigate risks to facilitate sales activities across the solution area. Reviews and translates customer and partner feedback to establish recovery action plans. Develops relationships with key customer and partner stakeholders to understand sentiment and satisfaction goals Drives partner teams, resources and relationships are activated, driving co-selling strategies and partner attach to each opportunity through every stage in the sales lifecycle. Drives partner organization connections (i.e. GPS) to drive share, partner health, that aligns with execution plans to accelerate customer value realization at scale. Analyzes business and emerging opportunities to improve the customer portfolio and encourage customer innovation. Evaluates solution area(s) and market and develops insights to align sales plays with customer business priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Evaluates and disseminates market intelligence, trends, and insights across the team. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship. Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience 12+ years solution or services sales experience 12+ years of experience selling business solutions to global customers with a focus on Cloud Native, AI, or Data platform and/or analytics 12+ years of experience engaging with large enterprise customers, including managing multiple stakeholders and navigating complex sales cycles
Key Skills
Cloud NativeAIData PlatformAnalyticsSales StrategiesCustomer EngagementStakeholder ManagementMarket IntelligenceConsultative SellingBusiness AcumenPredictive AnalyticsDeal OrchestrationRisk MitigationCo-Selling StrategiesCustomer InnovationEmerging Opportunities
Categories
TechnologySalesData & Analytics
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