Account Technology Strategist

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · Account Technology

This role is for an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft, focusing on empowering enterprise customers in their digital transformation journey. The strategist will partner with customers to design and drive digital technology initiatives, build relationships with technology executives, and bring industry-relevant solutions. The role involves understanding customer business objectives and technology landscapes to build and maintain technology roadmaps, drive Microsoft business growth through technology transformation and co-sell motions, and create thought leadership in emerging technology trends like AI and the Industrial Metaverse. The strategist will leverage their technology and industry knowledge to deliver digital solutions and become a trusted technology mentor for customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technology Strategy​ Leadership – Understand the customers’ business objectives, technology landscape and digital strategy to build, document and maintain the customers’ technology architecture and roadmap and use it in communication with the extended account team; grow and manage the technology relationship and orchestrate technology roles in your extended account team and relevant Partners to deliver customer outcomes across the customer lifecycle.
  2. Technology Relevant Trusted Seller – Drive Microsoft Business growth and customer Technology Transformation including partner co-sell motions, building new solution pipeline based on the customer-aligned technology strategy; be accountable for the development and governance of the customers’ consumption pipeline.
  3. Technology Leadership​ – Create thought leadership with the customers’ executives (Technology and Business) in new and emerging technology trends like AI or Industrial Metaverse and establishing a meaningful and mutually agreed path forward for the customers to adopt those technologies; orchestrate the resulting opportunities across Microsoft and Partner teams and create referenceable customer win stories.
  4. Industry Knowledge – Apply expertise in customer businesses, technology platforms and industry to build digital technology strategy with the customer that is aligned to business outcomes. Challenge customers’ assumptions with constructive dialogue about their business and technology.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, engineering, business or related field OR equivalent experience
  • 5+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience OR equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience