Account Technology Strategist

Why Microsoft: Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Our love for innovation, technology and doing meaningful work, is at the heart of everything we do at Microsoft Australia. It is a shared passion that inspires our team and customers to think bigger.

This Account Technology Strategist role is perfect for someone who thrives working with business leaders and technical teams alike, while leveraging their industry, business and technical acumen. As a Microsoft team member and leader, your daily actions will contribute to our inclusive culture. Through this welcoming environment, you will enable your technical V-Team to bring their most innovative solutions to client challenges.

**Responsibilities**:
As the Account Technology Strategist you will have the opportunity to own and strengthen customer relationships, work as a thought leader, create long term strategies linking business, technology and industry needs and orchestrate teams of technical experts to provide the right solutions to your customer.

There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. Time is the only limit at Microsoft. Every employee is encouraged to pursue their interests and goals in equal measure to the work that we do at our core. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one:

- Experience working with enterprise customers to drive digital transformation in a technical consulting or technical sales role.
- An understanding of how to build a technical strategy and roadmap, gaining executive buy in and how to orchestrate a team to execute against that.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**

**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience
- OR equivalent experience.

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience in relevant customer industry.
- 4+ years experience in digital transformation, or using technology to drive customer business outcomes.

**What next?**

Even if you feel you may not meet 100% of the criteria, please apply. You may exceed your own expectations, or we may have another opportunity that suits your potential. While we're not able to reach out directly to every applicant, we will always do our best to help you feel heard and supported throughout the experience.

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