Microsoft Partner Technology Strategist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

356827945

As a Partner Technology Strategistfor Cross-Industry Independent Software Vendors (

Insatiably curious and constantly learning, you stay ahead of industry trends to

Your focus is on enabling technical readiness, co-creating innovative solutions, and driving

stand in awe of

reach anywhere else. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, more value, and more sky’s-the-limit thinking—a cloud-enabled

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, business or related field AND 2+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience with relevant technologies (e.g., cloud, infrastructure, Microsoft platform).
• 8+ years experience with relevant technologies (e.g., AI, data, cloud, infrastructure, Microsoft platform).
• 5+ years of industry/ Channel/ Pre-sales experience preferably within a SaaS organization
• 5+ years of product/program management experience preferably within a SaaS organization
• Knowledge of partner ISV/SI ecosystem in retail sector vertical

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 April 2, 2025.

Partner and

• needs, andadapts plans to insights.

• identify

Trusted Advisor

• Acts as the voice of the partner and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the partner to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers).

• additionalones at the C- and direct-report level by researching organization charts,identifying

Strategy Formulation

• Provides analysis of overall partner needs and advises on gaps that wouldbenefitfrom Microsoft solutions, using an understanding of the business strategies and outcomes that technology can support; advises internal teams on how toidentifyand address gapsin order todrive end solutions.

• Ensures execution of technology strategy and/or digital transformation byidentifyingand resolving technical blockers that arise during strategy planning and implementation and driving technology adoption.

• Creates mid-term to long-term (e.g., 12 months plus) technical and business roadmaps for one or more accounts, outlining the digital transformation journey and core wins; drives and articulates business changes in the roadmaps around foundational, traditional capabilities. Builds technical engagement or enablement plan, captures baseline, and drives envisioning to support mid-term to long-term business plans.

Demand Generation and Orchestration

• appropriate

Differentiated Value Proposition

• Creates andmaintainsa vision with business and technology solution scenarios and services thathelps

• objectives

Education and Thought Leadership

• existing and new readiness resources to support enablement plans for partner technology adoption at the national and regional level.Contributes toinnovations to accelerate meeting goals for partnercapacity, maximize reach andimpactand drive long-term engagement and thought leadership on the Microsoft platform.

• Provides strategic input to virtual team members (e.g., Account Team) using a thorough knowledge of Microsoft technologies, partner accounts, and digital transformations and their context in the competitive landscape.

Ensuring Success

• a key role in helping the partner and their customers be successful with digital transformation and Microsoft technology adoption by helping them realize the value, meet their businessobjectives, achieve their consumption and business targets, and accelerate growth. Works with others (mayleveragethe partner solutions architect [PSA]) to guide the development of partner technology roadmaps that enable them to expand into new markets and provides them with a competitive edge.

• Proactively orchestrates execution and monitoring of projects/programs in accordance with partnerplanto develop solution offerings and value realization across a variety of solution areas.Sets timelines and milestones, and tracks progress towardobjectives. Builds industry knowledge andestablishestechnical credibility with partners to drive the project agenda.

Solution Development

• partner, and

Partner Enablement

• Helps partners build practices or solutions andsharestheir experience and influence with partners through solution-sales guidance; provides guidance to immediate team to ensure that technical pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are part of solution development efforts;anticipatespartners' technical blockers and executes a plan to divert blockers before they have the potential to occur.

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