Solution Sales Advisor - Windows Cloud

Job description

**Overview** Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions-Core (MCAPS) accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. MCAPS-Core AI Business Solutions (ABS) is at the forefront of Microsoft's AI transformation, helping organizations become AI-powered businesses. We bring together Microsoft's AI platform, customer expertise, and end-to-end execution capabilities to accelerate adoption, drive transformation, and deliver measurable business outcomes. From Copilot and AI agents to AI-powered business processes, we work at the intersection of innovation and impact, helping customers reimagine how work gets done and realize value faster. By combining deep technical expertise, customer insight, and a relentless focus on outcomes, our team is shaping the future of work for millions of people around the world. We are united by a shared mission: turning the promise of AI into real value for customers, partners, and Microsoft. Our purpose is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era. Are you insatiably curious? Do you embrace uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of Innovation at Microsoft? As a Cloud Endpoint Global Black Belt (GBB), you will lead strategic customer engagements that drive AI-powered transformation through Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. You will use your consultative selling skills and technical expertise to craft compelling business cases, land competitive wins, and accelerate cloud adoption in the PC market. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth by mastering business-value frameworks, developing deep business acumen through executive-level engagements, and honing your selling skills by leading complex deal strategies. You’ll also become adept at deal structuring and partner orchestration. 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** • Drive cloud and AI transformation deals by quantifying ROI and crafting executive-ready business cases that win technical and business decision-maker support. • Develop and deliver compelling use cases, customer scenarios, and competitive strategies that align virtualization value with customer priorities. • Lead technical engagements including pitches, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and whiteboarding sessions to secure customer commitment. • Define and close technical and business objectives to progress deals from uncommitted to committed stages. • Engage and scale the partner ecosystem to build sales, technical, and deployment capacity for Windows 365 and AVD. • Identify market trends and field insights to inform engineering, go-to-market, and marketing strategies, while continuously coaching and enabling the field through structured knowledge transfer. • Drive cloud and AI transformation deals by quantifying ROI and crafting executive-ready business cases that win technical and business decision-maker support. • Develop and deliver compelling use cases, customer scenarios, and competitive strategies that align virtualization value with customer priorities. • Lead technical engagements including pitches, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and whiteboarding sessions to secure customer commitment. • Define and close technical and business objectives to progress deals from uncommitted to committed stages. • Engage and scale the partner ecosystem to build sales, technical, and deployment capacity for Windows 365 and AVD. • Identify market trends and field insights to inform engineering, go-to-market, and marketing strategies, while continuously coaching and enabling the field through structured knowledge transfer. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical solution architecture and enterprise sales, business development, strategic consulting, technical consulting, or relevant/prioritized industry (e.g., Finance, Healthcare, Retail) OR equivalent experience. **Additional Preferred Qualifications:** Relevant technical certification(s) in cloud technologies, solution architecture, or related domain (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert) or equivalent industry certification. Technical understanding of cloud endpoint, windows cloud, desktop virtualization, VDI or end-user computing solutions, with the ability to engage customers in technical and business-value discussions. 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. 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