Strategic Account Technology Strategist - Automotive

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

The Strategic Account Technology Strategist (ATS) role at Microsoft focuses on driving digital transformation for enterprise customers in the Automotive industry. The ATS acts as a virtual CTO, mapping business scenarios to technical foundations, building customer roadmaps, and orchestrating resources. This role involves leveraging technical expertise and business acumen to enable customers to adopt new technologies like AI and the Industrial Metaverse, driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure, Modern Workplace, and Dynamics 365. The position requires understanding customer business objectives, technology landscapes, and industry trends to build and maintain technology strategies and roadmaps, while also fostering trusted relationships with IT decision-makers and driving Microsoft business growth through co-sell motions.

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 expertise
  • business acumen
  • technical architecture
  • digital transformation
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Modern Workplace solutions
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • IT decision-maker relationship management
  • strategy leadership
  • technology roadmapping
  • partner co-sell
  • thought leadership
  • AI
  • Industrial Metaverse
  • customer business understanding
  • technology platform expertise
  • industry knowledge

Nice to have

  • Global account management

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, technical consulting, practice building, or related enterprise technical sales experience globally.