Senior Power Platform/copilot Solution Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Solution Engineering

This role is a pre-sales technical engineer for Microsoft's Power Platform and Copilot. The primary focus is on Power Apps, Copilot Studio, and M365 Copilot, with additional use of GitHub Copilot, Fabric, and Agent 365 for value proposition. The role involves understanding customer needs, solving business challenges, and guiding them to success, with a strong emphasis on sales mindset and technical consulting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer’s solution design endorsement.
  2. Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.
  3. Proactively deliver compelling customer centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.
  4. Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.
  5. Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of technical pre-sales for business application/SaaS or technical consulting experience
  • Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members
  • Solutions pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.
  • Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.
  • Deep understanding in commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft’s cloud platform as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications and related ecosystems.
  • Customer facing business processes in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector and Media & Communications.
  • Business value selling methodologies and practices that successfully convey the value and business outcomes
  • Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders, e.g., CIO, CFO, CMO, VP of Sales, etc.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • High level of self-awareness, reflection, and empathy.

What the JD emphasized

  • strong sales mindset
  • FDE (speed x technical skill x business problem-based engineer)
  • Power Platform/Copilot knowledge
  • consulting mindset