Digital Solution Area Specialists- Workforce AI at Microsoft

Ciudad de México, , Mexico -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

06 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Sales Strategy, Customer Insights, Business Analysis, Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, Stakeholder Engagement, Sales Pipeline Management, Partnership Development, Coaching, Technical Expertise, Competitive Analysis, Account Management, Revenue Growth, Collaboration, Forecasting, Problem Solving

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business. Microsoft is hiring Regional Solution Area Sales Leads in four key Microsoft Cloud solution areas – Security, Workplace AI, AI Business Process, and Azure. Each hire will own the end-to-end sales performance for their respective solution area across the region’s corporate segment. In this role, you will lead the sales strategy and execution for your focus area, coach and orchestrate first-line managers and specialists, and serve as the voice of the field to worldwide teams. This opportunity allows you to accelerate your career growth by driving a critical piece of the Microsoft Cloud business, developing deep business and technical acumen in your solution domain, honing your coaching and leadership skills, and becoming adept at large-scale deal strategy and partner engagement – all while shaping the future of how we empower customers in FY26 and beyond. This role requires 3 days in office. The Microsoft Cloud is the most comprehensive and trusted cloud platform in the industry – spanning cutting-edge solutions in Security, Workplace AI, AI Business Process, and Azure. At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we harness this full Microsoft Cloud portfolio to drive digital transformation for organizations of all sizes. Our high-growth, AI-powered sales team is customer-obsessed and partner-driven, unlocking innovation from secure infrastructure to collaborative AI-powered productivity and intelligent business applications. Join us and lead the charge in empowering customers with the Microsoft Cloud, working smarter, collaborating seamlessly, streamlining business processes, and staying protected on a global, trusted platform. 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 Sales Excellence Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge; contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation. Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory. Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory; conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities. Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience; manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Sales Execution Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities; drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., marketing, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities; collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline; interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling; applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed. Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals; has a deep understanding of customers' business and its priorities to drive conversations with customers on digital transformation across multiple solution areas, in collaboration with partners and services; creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement. Identifies customer business needs and technology readiness; contributes to the development of solutions in collaboration with internal teams, partners, and services; proposes prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs; articulates the business value of proposed solutions. Proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping; collaborates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) to identify and engage senior business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business. Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, global black belts [GBBs]); for licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners; identifies, articulates, and facilitates the removal of blockers to consumption by partnering with internal and external stakeholders. Implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals; contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities; coaches less experienced team members in deal plan execution; implements close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure. Scaling and Collaboration Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; identifies and supports on-boarding new partners by researching and discussing customer scenarios; provides feedback to OCP on partner gaps; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; contributes to developing partner strategies to address gaps in partner capabilities. Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. Technical Expertise Collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implements strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication; proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area; evaluates opportunities and makes recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. Advanced English level. Demonstrated experience driving adoption across multiple stakeholders with varying agendas. Demonstrated experience in building strong partnerships and trust with clients at C-level. Demonstrated experience in managing and developing a sales pipeline. Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to Enterprise customers. Additional or preferred qualifications 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 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.

Responsibilities

The role involves leading the sales strategy and execution for Workforce AI, managing the end-to-end business of the assigned territory, and collaborating with partners and internal teams to drive customer success. Additionally, the specialist will coach team members and engage with stakeholders to optimize sales performance.