OverviewOur purpose is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.
In this role you will be the
Digital Solution Engineering, Dynamics 365 for the enterprise segment for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of AI Business Process Specialist (SSP), Customer Success Unit (CSU), partners and engineering.
As an
Digital Solution Engineering, Dynamics 365 you will lead AI transformation engagements with ERP domain expertise. Your role involves owning the technical win strategy and supporting AI Business Process Sales Specialists (SSP) by forming relationships with C-Suite executives, Business Decision Makers (BDMs), and Technical Decision Makers (TDMs) like CIO, CTO, and IT Leaders. You will help them achieve their goals for product proficiency, roadmap, and compete discussions to secure technical decisions.
Your responsibilities include orchestrating and executing POCs, envision workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and conducting technical demonstrations to showcase the business value of D365 F&SC, Copilot Studio, and LOB AI Agents offerings. You will proactively collaborate with partners early in the sales cycle.
You will be part of a dedicated sales community supported by Account teams, Marketing, Engineering, and Customer Success teams that enable you to drive enterprise-wide adoption of D365 solutions. You will secure wins against key competitors by showcasing Microsoft's unique differentiation, One Microsoft narrative, supporting migration and replacement technical plans, and addressing technical blockers related to Copilot and AI Agents compliance, privacy, and security concerns.
As a Solution Engineer, you will collaborate with SI partners early in the sales cycle to scale technical engagements-such as demos, whiteboarding sessions, and POCs-supporting customers effectively. You will be responsible for increasing D365 F&SC revenue by generating new pipeline creation, increased deal velocity and share capture by supporting SSP in addressing technical proof needs.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesBuild Strategy
- Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, and resources (e.g., unified action tracker [UAT], technical feedback platform) across territories so they can be added and prioritized. Represents the customer to product teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.
- Captures core customer compete knowledge across solution areas and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies.
- Provides strategic, technical, and partner input based on Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner and competitor knowledge.
- Works with account teams to shape strategic customer win strategy and tailor unique Microsoft value messaging to audience.
- Monitors and analyzes action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer's business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.
responsibility description
Scale Customer Engagements
- Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution, or portfolio expertise, and technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
- Leverages knowledge of programs and investments (e.g., Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], exec briefing center, partner workshops) and proactively engages with engineering, product, and support teams to remediate blockers.
- Helps ensure consistency and quality of engagements through adherence of standards and practices (e.g., managed service provider [MSP], managed certified professional [MCP]). Utilizes common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization to identify and engage customers in new opportunities. Actively seeks and incorporates feedback on customer impact to increase capabilities.
- Proactively helps to maximize impact of customer engagements by executing on solutions to blockers.
- Engages with customer technical and business decision makers, and identifying customer needs and issues proactively through technical discovery.
- Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and deep technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
- Leads and ensures customer needs are met by showcasing suitable Microsoft solutions anchored in insights and business value, and influences customer technical buy-in. Utilizes rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies), and leverages knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack). Searches for customer references to use in engagements.
Scale Through Partners
- Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by acting as liaison between the partner and team and shares visibility on partner resources and processes. Supports the development and maintenance of relationships with pre-sale team and partners. Self-identifies and selects top 5 to 10 go-to partners on proactive and early engagement in opportunities.
Solution Design and Proof
- Presents, applies, and customizes architecture patterns to partners or customers or businesses and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft Solutions.
- Applies and customizes existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., pre-built demos, architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions with partners) of solutions based on multiple Microsoft products through early stage engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.
Technical Leadership
- Monitors and responds to internal and external tech community posts, attends community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc., and acts as a mentor for their technology area. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions.
- Shares practices internally on community calls and drives recognition of Microsoft cloud solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.
- Conducts group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) or leverages existing scale enablement programs to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits across Microsoft solutions/products.
- Grows domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture. Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps.
QualificationsRequired/minimum qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 8+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Office 365; Power BI; Azure Administrator, Architecture, and Development exams; Cloud Platform Technologies; Information Security; Architecture).
Digital Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
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