Cloud & AI Specialist
Microsoft
Are you passionate about AI and eager to transform the IT landscape? Join our dynamic Azure team as we lead the charge in AI transformation! As trusted advisors and subject matter experts, we help customers modernize their infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation with Azure's cutting-edge AI capabilities. Whether it's migrating and modernizing estates to be AI-ready, accelerating innovation with AI agents and platforms, empowering development teams with AI, or unifying and modernizing data estates, we help customers build technology solutions to achieve their business needs.
In this role, you'll be at the forefront of AI growth and disruption, guiding customers through their AI journey and helping them achieve their strategic goals. You'll ensure customers can fully harness the transformative potential of AI to stay ahead of the competition. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive AI transformation, we invite you to join us and be part of this exciting journey!
As an Cloud & AI Specialist you will be a solution sales expert within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Azure revenue targets in your assigned accounts.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead Customer Engagements: Act as the Azure sales lead, guiding customers through cloud transformation across infrastructure, data, and AI platforms. Address business and technical needs with demos, whiteboarding, and solution storytelling.
- Own and Convert Pipeline: Manage forecast and pipeline from early-stage to close. Use tools like Industry Account Plans (IAP), Landing Experience Plans (LXP), and checklists to execute territory strategies and drive revenue.
- Orchestrate Across Teams: Partner with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Cloud Solution Architects, and partners to co-sell, validate solutions, and ensure successful deployment through the Azure Marketplace.
- Accelerate Decisions: Engage decision-makers with clear business cases using Azure Pricing Calculator, ROI, and TCO tools. Scope proofs of concept and lead customers from commitment to consumption.
- Inspire and Influence: Bring technical fluency and inclusive leadership to virtual teams. Solve challenges with expertise in virtualization, cloud-native tech, data modernization, and AI.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications (RQs)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years technology-related sales account management experience OR 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
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Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. 3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience Experience selling business solutions to Public Sector customers with a focus on Cloud Native, AI, or Data platform and analytics
- Experience selling business solutions to public sector customers with a focus on Cloud Native, AI, or Data platform and analytics
- Ability to obtain Reliability/ Security Clearance
- Bilingual (French & English)
Solution Area Specialists IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $103,500 - CAD $170,700 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Solution Area Specialists IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 103,500 $ CAD à 170,700 $ CAD par année.
Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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