Account Technology Strategist - Automotive

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Account Technology

The Account Technology Strategist (ATS) is responsible for driving digital transformation for enterprise customers in the automotive industry. This role involves understanding customer business objectives, mapping them to technical foundations, orchestrating resources, and driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure Cloud, Modern Workplace solutions, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. The ATS acts as a virtual CTO, building trusted relationships with IT decision-makers and creating thought leadership around emerging technology trends like AI and the Industrial Metaverse.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand the customer’s business objectives, technology landscape and digital strategy to build, document and maintain the customer’s 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. 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. 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. Apply expertise in customer businesses, technology platforms and industry to build digital technology strategy with the customer that is aligned to business outcomes. Challenge customer’s assumptions with constructive dialogue about their business and technology.

Skills

Required

  • technical consulting
  • technical consultative selling
  • enterprise technical sales experience
  • ITDM relationship management
  • customer business understanding
  • technology platform expertise
  • digital technology strategy development
  • AI and Industrial Metaverse trends

Nice to have

  • Microsoft Azure Cloud adoption
  • Modern Workplace solutions adoption
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 adoption
  • partner co-sell motions
  • roadmap development
  • architecture design