Strategic Account Technology Strategist - Telecommunications

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

This role is a Strategic Account Technology Strategist (SATS) focused on the telecommunications industry within the enterprise business unit. The SATS will work at the forefront of customer digital transformation, understanding their business and industry scenarios to provide resources for their digital journey. The role involves proposing innovative business ideas based on technical insights and industry expertise, driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure Cloud, AI, Modern Workplace, and business applications. The SATS will act as a virtual CTO for clients, building relationships with CIOs/CTOs and accelerating AI transformation. The role emphasizes strategy leadership, technology leadership, and industry knowledge to build digital technology strategies aligned with business outcomes.

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
  • customer business understanding
  • technology platform understanding
  • industry expertise

Nice to have

  • AI
  • Modern Workplace solutions
  • Microsoft 365
  • Dynamics 365
  • Power Platform
  • Azure Cloud
  • Industrial Metaverse

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation
  • AI