Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking Senior Solution Area Specialists to advance its mission of making the world a safer place through security solutions. The role develops and wins security sales opportunities by understanding customer challenges, building and demonstrating solutions, leading consultative conversations, and coordinating end-to-end opportunities with Microsoft and partner resources.

Responsibilities

• Sales Execution:Introduces how to enable digital transformation across workloads and collaborates with a virtual team to assess customer needs and proactively build an external stakeholder mapping to implement strategies that accelerate the closing of deals, drive consumption and licensing transactions, and grow the business with current and new Customers
• Scaling and Collaboration:Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell products, solutions and services
• Technical Expertise: Leads end-to-end Security conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas and evaluates opportunities to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal
• Sales Excellence:Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Manages the end-to-end Security pipeline of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for assigned accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan with guidance. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry
• Embody our Cultureand Values

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR 5+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship
• Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of security-related sales or account management experience working in an industry (e.g., Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Retail)
• 6+ years of solution or services sales experience
• Domain experience in Microsoft Security and/or Compliance products
• One or more of the following certifications is a plus: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Security Certification SC-500, Azure Certification AZ-900
• Technical passion with good understanding of cloud security technologies - Threat protection (Endpoint security, E-mail security, Incident Response, etc.), Kill Chain, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM), Multi-Cloud Security, Identity and Access management
• Familiarity with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence I-based security offering(s) such as Security Copilot as well as other related technologies such as Microsoft 365 Defender, extended detection and response (XDR) and Sentinel, or one or more related technologies such as Prisma Cloud, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, Splunk is a plus

Benefits

• This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
• This opportunity will allow you to learn and accelerate your career growth, honing your sales and collaboration skills and deepening your security end-to-end expertise.
• Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.

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