Digital Security Specialist

Overview

As an Enterprise Digital Security Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in empowering our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud. You will drive the day-to-day execution of our strategic business priorities - selling best-in-class cloud services and platforms to our managed customers and building digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.

In Digital Sales, we're on a mission to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud. As part of our globally led, digital-first organization, you'll play a pivotal role in driving success. Your exceptional sales skills, deep understanding of enterprise needs, and ability to build strong customer relationships will be instrumental in achieving sales targets. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession.

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.

Why join this team?

• Passion for Security: You will have the opportunity to enhance the security capabilities of the worlds leading enterprise organizations, fueled by an integrated approach that combines compliance, identity, and AI-driven automation.
• Safeguard Digital Ecosystems: Be part of our vision to safeguard digital ecosystems. As part of our mission, we champion a Zero Trust mindset, empowering organizations worldwide.
• Beyond todays technology: You will work directly with enterprise customers to help them unlock the value of AI across their organization and help them understand how AI and Automation can advance their security capabilities.

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.

Responsibilities

Manage enterprise clients by organizing, technical, support, and business resources to ensure value delivery.

• Sales Execution: You will collaborate with virtual team members to identify customer business needs and contribute to the development of solutions.  Proactively build an external stakeholder network to and implement strategies to accelerate and close Security opportunities.
• Business Value Selling: Hunt new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers' business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition.
• Technical Expertise: You will initiate Security discussions with business decision makers conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Sales Excellence: You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers
• Help grow Microsoft's culture priorities: work with peers and the organization to deliver excellence in culture. Our priorities are Diverse and Inclusive, Wellbeing, Sustainability, Giving and Learning.
• Showcase a learning mentality: Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience

Digital Solution Area Specialists IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $40.96 - $80.96 per hour. 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 $60.96 - $86.11 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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 requesting accommodations.