Technology Specialist - Modern Work, Copilot & Security

October 28, 2024

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Our Modern Work & Copilot Technical Specialists team is seeking passionate, experienced, and credible technologists. We are looking for individuals who are driven to develop and win strategic opportunities, deliver comprehensive Modern Work & Security thought leadership, drive significant customer value, and enable transformational customer outcomes.

As a **Technology Specialist** - **Modern Work, Copilot & Security** , you will develop AI-driven Modern Work and Security strategies for customers, working closely with various teams within the customer's organization to facilitate their transition to AI in a hybrid work environment. You will lead technical discussions with customers and collaborate on the demonstration, planning, and implementation of comprehensive Modern Work and Security solutions, partnering with internal stakeholders and partners to drive cross-selling and up-selling opportunities.

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**Responsibilities**

**Scale Customer Engagements**

+ Engages with customer technical decision makers and anticipates customer needs and issues proactively through data gathering.

+ Uses knowledge of customer context and solution or portfolio expertise to build credibility with customers individually or at scale. Develops technical and market/industry knowledge.

+ Ensures technical wins for core technologies by driving technical discussions with customers. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.

+ Engages other internal resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center, demo sites, virtual sites), mapping out and leveraging foundational resource knowledge for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.

**Scale Through Partners**

+ Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.

**Build Strategy**

+ Shares competitive insights from customer sessions with colleagues and escalates/resolves competitive situations to influence compete strategies.

+ Provides strategic, technical input based on Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner and internal teams.

+ Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resource (e.g., OneList) items across communities so they can be added and prioritized.

+ Works with account teams to tailor Microsoft messaging to audience and captures and shares customer feedback using knowledge of specific Microsoft solutions and their context in a competitive landscape.

+ Collaborates with team members to monitor and analyze customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.

**Solution Design and Proof**

+ Understands and can communicate the value of Microsoft 365 Modern Work & Security solutions.

+ Identifies and applies existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.

+ Presents and applies reference architectures across technologies/solution areas to partners or customers for their technology sets.

+ Expands awareness of and begins practicing digital transformation sales methodologies (e.g., challenger sales).

**Technical Leadership**

+ Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps. Grows domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture.

+ Conducts group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) or leverages existing scale enablement programs to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits across Microsoft solutions/products.

+ Monitors and responds to internal and external tech community posts, attends community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc., and acts as a mentor for their technology area. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions. Shares best practices internally on community calls and drives recognition of Microsoft cloud solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.

**Qualifications**

**Required/Minimum Qualifications**

+ 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

+ OR relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

+ OR equivalent experience.

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**

+ 5+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or related experience.

+ 2+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.