Solution Area Specialists Manager

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.

You will lead an Azure Specialist team, that acts as trusted advisors and subject matter experts in Azure. You will work with customers to realize their Cloud & AI transformation journey through cloud computing. We also support customers in evaluating their applications and business requirements, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, and demonstrate these solutions to their decision.

Microsoft Solution Area Specialist Managers build, develop and lead teams of Azure Specialist to identify and win over the decision makers in the Business and IT department of our Enterprise Customers. You and your team will drive decisions for the customer that helps them achieve Business value with the Microsoft Azure Platform, and thereby secure long-term sustainable growth for Microsoft. As a Solution Area Specialist Manager, you will be a key leader to helping customers embrace and succeed through Cloud & AI transformation. You will have proven experience developing a high-performance team through continuous coaching, and inspiration and excel at developing strong relationships and leadership connections to understand customer needs and partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. You will lead Solution Area Specialists to build and maintain strong, accurate pipeline, sales orchestration with other teams, and drive rigor in program utilization to accelerate deals and reduce time to deployment.

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.

• Team Coaching: Lead Solution Area Specialists to build and maintain strong, accurate pipeline and drive the Azure business to overachieve revenue, consumption, and scorecard targets. Apply 'Model, Coach, and Care' framework through a consistent coaching rhythm.
• Customer Focus:. Dedicate each week to cultivating relationships with Business and IT leaders, business decision-makers, developers. Gain insights into their needs, broaden your network via social media, and seek out new opportunities.
• Stakeholder Management: Foster and sustain effective support from key stakeholders, both within and outside the organization. Remove barriers & orchestrate resources to facilitate smooth execution & progress of engagements.
• Pipeline Management: Use tools and processes to turn leads into opportunities. Update your progress weekly, target customers accurately to convert UnCommitted to Committed in milestones.
• Partners Management: Establish a consistent cadence with prioritized partners, emphasizing collaboration, go-to-market strategies, accountability, and achieving ambitious goals. Guide your team to maintain regular interactions and strengthen relationships with partners to accelerate Infra, Data, AI, and Apps initiatives.
• Continuous Learning: Build a learning culture in your team to stay updated on new technologies, partner solutions, industry trends, and competitors.

Required Qualifications (RQs)

• 5+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• 7+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
• 4+ years solution or services sales experience
  • OR 5+years demonstrated Sales Team Management experience in Enterprise sales
  • OR 5+ years of experience in leading and negotiating multi-million-dollar cloud deals
  • Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform, or other public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), including IaaS and PaaS technologies and how they translate into business impact. Versed in cloud migration and modernization
  • Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud and datacenter infrastructure competitor landscape including AWS and GCP
• 1+ years people management experience (including leading virtual teams)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process,read more about requesting accommodations.

Solution Area Specialists M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $170,300 - $239,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.