The successful candidate will have background and deep interest in the startup and technology ecosystem, a broad understanding of cloud and AI technologies, and hands-on execution excellence. Specifically, this highly visible and strategic role requires a candidate who possesses the following characteristics:
- Deep sales capability talking to a variety of stakeholders and decision makers at strategic Digital native companies and ISVs
- Engaging with senior executives and technical leaders involved with the most strategic Scale-Ups and Unicorns
- Developing deep and long-term relationships with key scale-ups at a c-suite and senior executive level
- Build coalition and support of senior leadership teams throughout all organizations within MSFT.
- Consistent, repeatable achievement of revenue targets through disciplined pipeline and forecast management.
- Ability to ramp up quickly and understand thoroughly the economics, dynamics and intricacy of the SaaS and AI sectors
- Proactively forms new relationships with strategic targets that have little or no existing relationship with Microsoft.