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Responsibilities

Role Descriptions  

Applications to these opportunities are considered for all available Technology Sales intern roles, including but not limited to, those described below:    

Technical Specialist 

Overview 

Technology Specialists (TSs) drive the technical motions within sales driving specific solution area revenue and market share. Based on the tremendous opportunity of digital transformation across every individual and organization, we focus our broad portfolio of assets and go-to-market efforts across four key solution areas: Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Apps & Infrastructure, and Data & AI.  

Responsibilities: 

Engages with and guides customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. 

Leverages sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. 

Understands customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers. 

Demonstrates Microsoft solutions to prove capabilities, applies architectures to client scenarios, and engages in partner sell-with scenarios to scale through partners. 

Acts as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations. 

Account Technology Strategist 

Overview 

Account Technology Strategists (ATS) are our enterprise customer's chief architects. Acting as a chief architect offers a high profile, customer-facing role that is the primary technical face and orchestration point for enterprise customers. Successful ATS' have a strong, proven IT background and demonstrated knowledge with a broad range of Microsoft solutions and technologies.    

As an ATS you must relish the opportunity to build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with technical leads at some of America's largest organizations including CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and IT Directors 

Responsibilities: 

Provides technology guidance to clients and orchestrates the interaction between clients and Microsoft resources. 

Drives new opportunities, demand generation, digital transformation, and the mapping of industry/business scenarios to Microsoft solutions. 

Drives conversations with clients to present the strategic value of Microsoft solutions and acts as a trusted technology advisor both internally and externally with technical and/or business decision-makers. 

Gathers insights about client business and leverages existing architecture approaches to achieve Microsoft’s agreed commitments to clients. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications  

Currently pursuing or have completed bachelor's degree in Compter Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field with at least one quarter/semester remaining to complete after internship. 

Passion for technology and working with customers  

Strong balance of both business and technical skills  

Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills  

Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills  

Technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience is a plus  

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