Business Applications Specialists Sales jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

Minimum Experience

• 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Additional

  • or preferred qualifications 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid

  • or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Architecture).

• Drive technical sales conversations with business and technical decision makers, using demos and proof-of-concepts to shape solution design and accelerate production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements such as hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops to fast-track adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leaders, co-designing secure, scalable, and innovative architectures.
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, working closely with engineering teams to provide feedback and influence product improvements.
• Develop and maintain expertise in AI Foundry and AI application architecture, including Agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, and Responsible AI.
• Grow skills in cloud-native development, including APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven systems, and programming in Python, Java, or .NET.
• Expand knowledge in AI management and security, including GenAI Ops, Sentinel, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Represent Microsoft as a thought leader in developer communities and customer forums.

This role requires an experienced professional who thrives in complex environments, canneeds, and consistently delivers with discretion, judgment, and professionalism.

This is more than an administrative role

• 5+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper-level management
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience supporting Director, CVP, and Executive-level leaders within a globally distributed team.
• 3+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)
• Experience collaborating with a highly geo-diverse team across multiple time zones.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 10+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper-level management
  • OR equivalent experience
• 10+ years experience supporting Director, CVP, and Executive-level leaders within a globally distributed team.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology)
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)
• 2+ years experience serving as mentor to others

Executive Business Administrator ATR-D - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $30.29 - $50.53 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 $41.83 - $57.88 per hour.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until

• Provide high-level administrative support to the CVP, including proactive calendar and schedule management, travel coordination, and executive communications.

• effectivenessacross time zones, ensuring alignment on critical business priorities and seamless execution of the rhythm of business (ROB).

• Manage complex headcount, budget, and space planning processes in partnership with finance and business operations teams.

• Serve as a trusted connector across the organization, reinforcing Microsoft’s culture and values.

• challenges, remove barriers, and enable the CVP and leadership team to focus on high-impact decisions.

• Partners with Global Talent Acquisition and hiring managers on recruitment and onboarding. Ensures smooth processes for new hires, interns, and executive onboarding.

• logistics, and outcomes. Leverages resources to deliver efficient, high-quality experiences.

• Oversees purchase orders, expenses, and compliance with Microsoft policies. Acts as interim approver when needed.

• Leads office space management and planning, from desk assignments to large-scale restacks and buildouts, ensuring alignment with organizational needs.

• Actively contributes to the Business Support community by mentoring peers and sharing best practices.

Embody our

, you will take the lead in harnessing the power of AI to achieve customer leadership. Your efforts will be instrumental in executing solution sales strategies by leveraging various programs and offers. Additionally, you will be responsible for selling cloud services and platforms tailored for our managed customers. Furthermore, you will play a significant role in enabling AI and Digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• 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

• Sales Execution- 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 junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.
• Business Value Selling : Hunt 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.
• Scaling and Collaboration- 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.
• 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. 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.
• 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
• Showcase a learning mentality : Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.
• Delivers Results Through Teamwork
  • Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

As an SAP Solution Engineer, you will work closely with a dedicated salesperson from the Strategic Partnership team to sell SAP Azure in western Europe. This is a technical pre-sales role, responsible for all technical pre-sales activities, including running workshops, leading technology presentations as well as assisting our customers in becoming frontier, taking advantage of the possibilities of CoPilot and Agentic AI with SAP on Azure. This opportunity will allow you to interact with senior stakeholders, decision makers and the technical staff of our customers. You will have opportunities to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your selling skills, and become adept at evangelizing why Microsoft Cloud, its cloud services and capabilities are ideal for innovation.

This is a flexible working opportunity and working from home is possible when not visiting customers. International travel maybe be required.

Required Qualifications

• Several years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• Several years of extensive experience with SAP infrastructure-related technologies, paired with asolid understanding of the SAP ecosystem and how to bring them to life with Azure or competing clouds.
• Comprehensive understanding of cloud platform technologies, especially AI, Agentic and CoPilot technologies.
• Multi-lingual speaking skills, especially French (B2+) and English (C1+).

Additional Qualifications

• Computer Science, Information Technology or related 4 year degree
• Proficiency in understanding the core business processes associated with companies running SAP, especially those in the manufacturing, pharma, energy and retail/consumer products industries
• Proven experience engaging with senior level executives.
• Superior communication and presentation skills and the ability to influence for impact and stakeholder collaboration.
  

• Proactively identify and engage with key customer decision makers and influencers, while leading the technical sales strategy, including positioning the advantages of the Microsoft platform, from security to AI for SAP RISE and SAP in Azure customers.
• Use your broad, in-depth knowledge and leadership skills to build credibility and trust with our customers
• Leverage your skills and experiences to take ownership of resolving all technology aspects of a complex customer engagement
• Foster a deep relationship with SAP and the SAP Community, to keep aligned with SAP strategies and SAP customer trends
• Engage the Microsoft global system integration partner ecosystem in a sell-with motion
• Generate new go-to-market strategies and patterns and share them with the global and area community.

• 10+ years of experience in Sales, Partner/Channel development, business development, alliance management in the technology industry
  • Experience articulating technology platform strategy and solutions with a great proficiency
  • Good candidate will be inclusive and collaborative, drive teamwork and cross-team alignment and will have strong relationship management and solution development skills
  • Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small audiences.
  • Strategic thinker who drives for impact. Strong candidates with problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA desired.

• Sales Leadership

• Partner Success

• : Create strategic business objectives and partnership plans, coordinate partner prioritization and growth, ability to set clear goals/timelines for the business to achieve or exceed on revenue/metric targets and drive execution against agreed plans. Demonstrate the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

• Focus on Performance Management with partners

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+years’ experienceinbusinessmanagement, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, or business-related roles

• OR equivalent experience.

• yearsof experience in leadership positions,demonstratingthe ability to work closely with senior leadership andpromotecollaboration among cross-functional teams.

• 8+ years business or program management experience working in a production, mission-critical 24/7 environmentsuch as DataCenter or other Critical Environments.

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 12+years experienceinfinancial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, or business-related roles
  • ORBachelor's Degreein relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 15+years experienceinfinancial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.

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• xecutivepresence and proven ability to influence technical peers and senior leaders.

• Industry Projectmanagement, dataanalyticsand organization skills.

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• collaborating across diverse groupsto drive clarity and effectiveness in rhythm of businessand delivering projects on time.

• Proactiveness and a positive outlook and approach to change management.

• usiness acumenand agility to ramp quickly across our diverse business and offerings.

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• Ability to synthesize complex ideas into easy-to-understand concepts for communications. Demonstrated capability in verbal and written communications skills across a geographicallydispersed audience.

• People management experience a plus, as the role is likely to grow as the organization grows.

Business Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17, 2025.

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• Develop andmaintaina comprehensiveprogramroadmap aligned with Data CenterOperationsand CO+I objectives.Plan and run the monthlyprogram reviews.
• Sets business priorities for the year and focus areas for each period, in collaboration with the leader
• Drivebusiness functions to ensure the team's operating rhythm is effective.
• Drive prioritization and prepare the team for weekly leadership staff; drive content alignment across teams for executive review.
• Prioritizeand manageend-to-end businessneedstoaneffectivelyforoptimaloutcomes.
• Leverage deep knowledge of organizational strategy and planned deliverables for the upcoming year to design and track people-related budgets (training, morale, T&E, etc.).
• Providedirection and supportfor org hygiene,cultureandinclusioninitiativesin partnership with HR.
• Partner and collaborate with the extended business management community within CO+I.

Strategy Planning & Activation

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• Facilitate execution of leadership team strategic planning, white papers, key results reviews, training, and organizational hygiene.
• Participate in overall group strategy decisions andassistin implementing policies and procedures to maximize team effectiveness.
• Leads multiple workstreams in conjunction with stakeholders and the leadership team (including continuous improvement processes).

Executive Communication Strategy

• Leads executive-level communications for a variety of internalandexternal audiences, from org-widecommunicationsto customer speakingengagements.
• Develop and execute anorg-wideengagement plan, including town halls and Employee Signals action plans
• Serve asanextension ofthe VP; prep the VPfor stakeholderand/orcustomer meetingsand lead work on exec presentations / white papers.

Strategic Programsand Initiatives

• Create and manage the end-to-end process for the planning and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives,automationand programs.
• Drive cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business; create clarity on ambiguous projects and develop plans for execution.
• Establish and enforce program standards and best practices.
• Prepare and present regular status reports to executive leadership.
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Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in structuring and negotiating complex strategic alliances or acquisitions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 12+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR Master's/Advanced Degree in Business, Sciences, or related field AND 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in the technology industry OR in a technical role (e.g., IT, Engineering).
• Industry experience in driving Shopping or Payments Partnerships

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 28, 2025.

Partner & Customer Focus

• Leverages internal and external network to develop new strategic relationships. Develops relationships as a trusted advisor with key stakeholders. Works cross-functionally on internal strategy and works with v-teams to deliver alignment on objectives and outcomes.
• Articulates the value of Microsoft solutions, leveraging knowledge of customer and partner business priorities and/or drivers to influence decision making. Looks across opportunities to identify and address broad issues and trends.

Market Signal

• Develops processes and channels for information gathering and reporting, including synthesizing key insights and trends gathered from engagements for executive consumption.

Partnership Strategy

• Formulates partnership strategy for Shopping & Payments growth priorities with input from relevant stakeholders and creates business value propositions based on partner and company needs.
• Builds and utilizes internal & external network with a diverse set of stakeholders to identify and validate unique opportunities across business areas. Provides input into recommendations on partners.
• Positions the Microsoft value proposition versus competitors and works with stakeholders to influence the build/buy/partner decision to meet customer needs, leveraging knowledge of Microsoft and customer issues in conjunction with product/industry teams to establish a foundation for future opportunities in competitive situations through collaboration.
• Provides insight on industry and/or competitive trends and drives action based on insights.
• Drives deals to increase growth and achieve desired outcomes, anticipating potential issues. Encourages customers and partners to apply and amend a value proposition in order to create a partnership. Influences internal stakeholders and partners and promotes the value of opportunities.

Negotiation

• Represents Microsoft in key customer and partner interactions, and defines the deal structure for scalable and durable solutions to complex business opportunities.
• Leverages deep understanding of risks, rewards, and negotiation skills to manage broad engagements across all business functions.
• Provides breakthrough ideas and collaborates to close strategic or high-impact opportunities in order to scale the business (e.g., cross-company, cross-product deals).
• Provides coaching and support to less experienced colleagues as a go-to resource for negotiation.

Deal Management/Governance

• Develops plans for managing deals, including communications, and reporting with Microsoft stakeholders. Resolves blocking issues using known techniques.
• Collaborates with customers, partners, and Microsoft colleagues to develop post-deal governance and ensure design, communication, and alignment in creation and implementation of execution plans across a portfolio of deals within a particular domain.
• Ensures customers and partners are prepared for implementation.
• Captures and shares learnings to improve future pipeline and business value communication.

• Embodies our