Manufacturing & Mobility CTO

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

8d•$155,800 - $303,600•Hybrid

About The Position

The Worldwide Manufacturing & Mobility Industry CTO for Microsoft Frontier Company is the technology leader responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling agentic technology patterns across the most strategic global Manufacturing & Mobility customers. This role translates complex mission needs into repeatable, secure, compliant agentic solution patterns that deliver real-world value and impactful mission outcomes. As part of FIA, the CTO community serves as the technical bridge between Industry Advisors, Engineering, FDE Studios, and Solution Sales teams. Together, we transform customer insights into repeatable solutions, influence future product direction, and help customers realise measurable business outcomes through AI and Frontier technologies.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across technical, product, field, partner, customer, and engineering organizations.
Advance Knowledge in Manufacturing and Mobility industries, with strong understanding of industry challenges, technology trends, and business outcomes.
Proven ability to build executive-level relationships and influence senior business and technical stakeholders, including C-suite engagements.
Experience with cloud platforms, AI, data platforms, application modernization, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation initiatives.
Ability to translate complex customer challenges into scalable, repeatable solutions, technical strategies, and industry-focused innovation opportunities.
Experience developing reusable technical assets, reference architectures, implementation frameworks, and solution patterns that drive adoption and business impact.

Responsibilities

Identify, validate, and scale repeatable technical patterns emerging from customer engagements, FDE projects, industry trends, and AI transformation initiatives. Distinguish between one-off customer requirements and opportunities that can be leveraged across an entire industry or solution domain.
Create a closed feedback loop between Industry Advisors, FDE Studios, customers, and Engineering teams. Translate customer priorities, implementation learnings, and market signals into actionable feedback that improves roadmap relevance, platform capabilities, and future product investments.
Partner with Industry Advisors, Engineering, and FDE Studios to improve opportunity qualification, prioritisation, and execution. Help ensure investments focus on opportunities that maximise customer value, technical feasibility, strategic relevance, and repeatability.
Drive the creation and adoption of reusable architectures, technical assets, reference patterns, accelerators, implementation guidance, and agentic solution frameworks that enable teams to move faster and increase customer impact.
Strengthen technical confidence and capability across FIA by coaching Industry Advisors, improving technical qualification practices, and helping teams engage customers with greater credibility in AI transformation, architecture discussions, and Frontier opportunities.
Proactively evaluate emerging technologies, industry shifts, and transformation opportunities. Develop forward-looking points of view that help Microsoft, our customers, and our field organisations prepare for the next wave of industry innovation.
Transform successful customer engagements into repeatable industry assets, best practices, and scalable plays that increase adoption, improve execution quality, and accelerate industry-wide impact.