Senior Digital Solution Area Specialist-Security

Microsoft • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

This role is for a Senior Digital Security Specialist within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) team, focusing on leading AI-powered sales strategies and driving customer success in security solutions. The position involves selling cloud services and platforms, enabling AI and Digital transformation, and contributing to Microsoft's commitment to global cybersecurity. The specialist will build digital transformation security strategies with customers, lead consultative conversations, and collaborate with internal stakeholders and partners to drive end-to-end security opportunities. This role offers opportunities for career growth, honing solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening cloud and security expertise within a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's 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.
• Industry knowledge of Manufacturing Cybersecurity industry experience.
• Microsoft security portfolio knowledge preferred.
• Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to Enterprise customers.
• Proven sales and negotiation experience.
• Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to small and medium enterprise customers.
• Proven self-starter able to work towards delivery of goals as best practices are being developed.
• Able to drive technical security conversations and conduct product/solution demonstrations.
• Solid understanding of security market and complete solutions.
• Experience in managing channel sales.
• 3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience.
• Strategic thinking & execution. Ability to develop sales and business strategy options, while also being able to successfully execute plans and build strong relationships.
• High Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations and has the ability, characteristics, and determination to compete effectively against skilled and diverse competition.
• Collaborative. Work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services team, Microsoft partners, engineering, and marketing to solve customer and partner issues, leverage best practices, & deliver results.
• Growth Mindset. Ability to overcome and work around problems that are inevitable in rapidly growing businesses – positive approach to problem solving, learning, and development.
• Purposeful Planner & Executor – Delivers business impact with intentional planning, driving clarity to the team with consistent coaching rhythms, removing blockers and ensuring quarterly business budget goals are met.
• Disciplined Operator – Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.
• Technical breadth: Enterprise customer level experience with cloud, hybrid infrastructures, productivity and security technologies, and industry standards recommended.
• Experience in competitive platforms and certifications preferred.
• Technical Skills: AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Certified or SC-900 Security & Compliance Fundamentals Certified or prepared to attain SC-900 certification within 3 months.
• Proficient: Experience with complex sales training (e.g., Miller Hyman, Spin, Michael Bosworth, Holden, etc.) and sales methodologies.
• Competes to win new market share.

Nice To Haves

• Industry knowledge of Manufacturing Cybersecurity industry experience.
• Microsoft security portfolio knowledge preferred.
• Experience in competitive platforms and certifications preferred.
• Prepared to attain SC-900 certification within 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.
• Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.
• Hunts new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, partners, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition.
• Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.
• Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies.
• Initiates Security discussions with business decision makers, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing, initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events, acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s).
• Collaborates with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies.
• Collaborates with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers.
• Showcases a learning mentality and demonstrates a willingness to invest in personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.
• Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior