Azure Solution Area Specialist

Overview

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 Azures cutting-edge AI capabilities. Whether its 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.In this role, youll be at the forefront of AI growth and disruption, guiding customers through their AI journey and helping them achieve their strategic goals. Youll ensure customers can fully harness the transformative potential of AI to stay ahead of the competition. If youre ready to make a significant impact and drive AI transformation, we invite you to join us and be part of this exciting journey!

As an Azure Specialist you will be a solution sales expert within our digital enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Azure revenue targets in your assigned accounts across a broad portfolio.

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

Lead Cloud & AI Customer Engagements

• Serve as the trusted Cloud & AI advisor, guiding customers through their Frontier Transformation journey across Modernize with Confidence, Unified Data & AI Estate, Microsoft IQ, and Ubiquitous Innovation. Lead business and technical conversations through solution storytelling, demos, workshops, whiteboarding, and AI-driven discovery. Help customers navigate Cloud & AI solution options (Buy, Build, Extend) while positioning Azure as the platform foundation for secure, AI-powered transformation.

Own the Pipeline Growth and End-to-End Sales Execution

• Manage the full sales lifecycle from opportunity qualification through commitment, deployment, consumption, and expansion. Drive pipeline development and forecast accuracy using Azure Accelerate, Frontier Accelerate, Marketplace, MACC, consumption planning, territory planning, and AI-powered sales insights. Leverage agent-based intelligence, account signals, and digital selling tools to identify opportunities, improve execution velocity, and accelerate customer time-to-value.

Win the Microsoft Cloud Platform for Frontier Transformation

• Position Azure as the strategic platform for customers Cloud & AI transformation initiatives. Drive adoption of key solution plays, Microsoft IQ, Copilot scenarios, and Frontier Accelerate offerings. Scope and qualify opportunities, build business value cases, and guide customers from pilot to production at scale while maximizing Azure consumption and long-term platform growth.

Orchestrate as One Microsoft

• Partner closely with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Cloud Solution Architects, Industry Solution Delivery, Microsoft Industry Clouds, Factory teams, Digital Enterprise Sales specialists, and Partners to deliver integrated customer solutions. Lead cross-functional virtual teams to accelerate deal progression, remove blockers, and ensure successful customer outcomes across the buying and deployment journey.

Drive New Opportunity Creation and Expansion

• Proactively identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities across Cloud & AI solution areas. Generate new contacts, opportunities, and strategic engagements by leveraging account intelligence, AI-derived recommendations, partner ecosystems, and account-based marketing motions. Accelerate Azure consumed revenue (ACR), marketplace transactions, contract renewals, and customer expansion opportunities.

Accelerate Strategic Motions and Consumption Growth

• Drive strategic cloud motions including Azure Accelerate, Frontier Accelerate, Marketplace, Unified, MACC, Sovereign Cloud, and AI transformation initiatives. Use AI-powered insights to optimize customer consumption, monitor adoption, identify expansion opportunities, and increase business impact across the territory.

Compete to Win

• Develop and execute competitive strategies against AWS, Google Cloud, and emerging AI ecosystem competitors. Leverage customer signals, competitive intelligence, industry insights, and differentiated Microsoft Cloud & AI capabilities to influence customer decisions and strengthen Microsoft platform preference.

Become the Cloud & AI Business and Industry Expert

• Maintain deep expertise across cloud infrastructure, data modernization, analytics, AI platforms, Microsoft IQ, agent-based experiences, and industry-specific transformation scenarios. Understand customer business priorities, regulatory requirements, and market trends to deliver compelling business outcomes through Frontier workshops, repeatable intellectual property, solution demonstrations, and AI-powered customer engagements.

Inspire and Influence

• Demonstrate technical depth, business acumen, and inclusive leadership across virtual teams and customer engagements. Influence decision-makers through compelling business value conversations, ROI/TCO frameworks, AI-driven insights, and strategic storytelling that accelerates customer transformation and Microsoft growth.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 3+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 2+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience

Digital Solution Area Specialists IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $31.15 - $64.95 per hour. 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 $48.37 - $69.18 per hour.

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.