Partner Technology Strategist

**Partner Technology Strategist - Services**

The Partner Technology Strategist (PTS) is at the forefront of our digital transformation efforts for our partners.

The PTS plays a critical role in working with partners to align their technology roadmaps with Microsoft's technology priorities that enable customers to realize the vision of Digital Transformation. The PTS is the Technical Owner of Partner’s Business Solutions evolvement and its success on the Microsoft cloud, and responsible to lead partners through cloud transformation with a Technical Sales Challenger mindset as well as Innovation and Tech intensity as leading principles.

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**:
**Key areas of responsibility - What PTS' do**:

- ** Partner & Industry Insights.** Synthesizes and combines various business insights to conduct forecasting and develop recommendations. Understands market trends, market opportunities, compliance by reading, attending webinars, conferences delivered by Industry thought leaders such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC
- ** Trusted Advisor.** Acts as the voice of the partner and internal advocate, joining the Strategic Technology Advisory/Planning groups of partners and contributing with insights that influence the technology roadmaps and investments towards Microsoft.
- ** Strategy Formulation.** Provides analysis of overall partner needs in alignment towards Microsoft’s technology priorities and advises on gaps that would benefit from Microsoft solutions as part of Industry solution mapping and capacity planning, ensures execution of technology strategy and digital transformation, and creates mid-term and long-term technical and business roadmaps.
- ** Owner of the Partner’s business solutions evolvement.** The Technical owner of Partner’s Business Solutions evolvement and its success, and responsible to grow and protect the Microsoft share of wallet by skilling plans & launch customers wins.
- ** Differentiated Value Proposition.** Partners with a line-of-business leader or senior executive within a partner organization to articulate the value of Microsoft technology/services to meet future business needs and creates and maintains a vision with business and technology solution scenarios and services.
- ** Education & Thought Leadership**. Uses existing and new readiness resources and demonstrates expertise in creating enablement plans for partners and provides expertise and is sought out by the Microsoft community at the global level. Envisions the important of Partner-to-Partner (P2P) motions for better together strategies among different partners and partner types.
- ** Ensuring Success.** Lead a wide, complex range of components for projects/programs within large, partner accounts, and partners with line-of-business leaders or senior executives within the partner organization.
- ** Solution Development.** Proactively influences large, global partners to develop strategic solution using Microsoft cloud Technologies.

**Qualifications**:
Qualifications:

- 10+ years of related experience in technology solutions/practice development, Cloud / Infrastructure technologies required. Knowledge of Microsoft platform preferable, project management, technical Sales and technical account management.
- Partner & Industry Insights. Deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, emerging Cloud trends and their impact on customer opportunities.
- Trusted Advisor. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with CXOs and building cloud consumption share in Hosters or Managed services providers.
- Strategy Formulation. Strong understanding of business strategies and outcomes that technology can support, ability to lead the adoption of technologies by plotting the strategic, long-term vision of partners, can anticipate the resolution of technical blockers that arise during strategy planning, and drives envisioning in the roadmaps around new and groundbreaking capabilities.
- Differentiated Value Proposition. Skilled in helping large-scale, high-stakes partners meet their business goals, achieve their long-term corporate vision, and maximize commercial success. Strong Technical knowledge on one of the Microsoft Cloud Platforms (Azure, Modern Work, Security & Business Applications) and ability to articulate the value proposition of Microsoft Cloud services to partners.
- Education & Thought Leadership. Ability to drives innovations to help partners meet capacity and capability goals, maximize reach and impact and drive long-term engagement and thought leadership, and influences large partners to