Senior Solution Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Seoul)

Job Description

Proactively identifies and engages with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team and helping lead sales strategy. Uses knowledge of customer context, and deep technical, domain, and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers. Leads and ensures complex technical wins. Leverages knowledge of resources. Scales wins through partner in a sell-with environment by promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem. Supports partner technical capacity by monitoring and analyzing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build subsidiary strategy. Builds competitive knowledge, documents compete patterns, and shares within the community to drive change and escalations for competitive selling strategies. Proactively develops strategic cross-workload/subsidiary and account level responses to specific market threats by identifying market patterns and delivering feedback to business group on trends and needs.

Job Responsibility

Builds competitive knowledge, documents compete patterns, and shares within the community to drive change and escalations for competitive selling strategies
Acts as a subject matter expert on a particular competition
Delivers competitive knowledge back to product and engineering teams
Works with local account and marketing teams to shape strategic win and customer success plans and tailors to audience for the local markets using knowledge of Microsoft offerings, their context in the competitive landscape, and broader market trends
Where applicable, builds consumption plans with moderately complex requirements in coordination with Partner and Industry Solutions Delivery teams after customer sign-off
Proactively develops strategic cross-workload/subsidiary and account level responses to specific market threats by identifying market patterns and delivering feedback to business group on trends and needs
Builds readiness plans for peers and proactively identifies gaps and new opportunities for learning
Provides insight onto Corporate, business and product groups, sales strategy, and business reviews for impact
Acts as a technical thought leader by sharing best practices (e.g., architectures, materials) and regularly delivering content at Microsoft events
Provides insight into how to identify opportunities to increase solutions/portfolio understanding
Monitors, responds to, and acts as a thought leader on internal tech community posts, establishes and leads vibrant tech communities including community calls, sessions, hackathons, etc., and acts as a mentor to the community
Scales wins through partner in a sell-with environment by promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams) and developing deep partner relationships
Supports partner technical capacity by monitoring and analyzing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build subsidiary strategy
Leverages knowledge of resources and proactively engages product teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate escalated technical blockers by conveying impact and anticipating and addressing future potential blockers based on needs
Leads and ensures complex technical wins (e.g., cross-workload, cross-team, cross-geo, subsidiary-level impact) by establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies), coaching others (e.g., technical sellers, account teams), leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], Managed Certified Professional [MCP]), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs])
Ensures alignment of Microsoft technologies with future sector standards and requirements by working with industry boards and driving customer case studies and references
Proactively identifies and engages with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team and helping lead sales strategy
Uses knowledge of customer context, and deep technical, domain, and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers
Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, and proof of concept [POC] sessions, pilots, hackathons) of solutions based on multiple products and position solutions against competitors
Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and programmatic framework for re-use by the business
Adapts and extends architecture patterns to accommodate complex customer requirements and drive integration solutions for industry flavor
Delivers assets that can be leveraged by others in the business
Applies advanced sales methodologies (e.g., challenger sales) to guide customers through digital transformation solutions and uses innovation to challenge solutions against changing technology (e.g., Power Apps)

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
10+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

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