The Account Technology Strategist (ATS) is a technical thought leader responsible for the digital and AI transformation of our customers through the adoption of Microsoft technologies. As a core part of the sales team, the ATS is responsible for facilitating interactions between clients and Microsoft, fostering new opportunities, inspiring customers, demand generation, market share growth, digital and AI transformation, and aligning industry/business scenarios with technological solutions. In partnership with the Account Executive, you will set the strategy to drive your customer's innovation agenda through a deep understanding of their environment and by inspiring them around the possibilities that Microsoft technology can deliver. This particular ATS role has a core focus on the Victorian and Tasmanian State Governments. With the huge opportunity we have with AI and our core focus on Security, there has never been a more exciting time to join Microsoft and particularly this industry, where the impact of AI is endless.
**Responsibilities**:
**Customer and Industry Insights**
- Synthesises and combines various business and industry insights from their team, global best practices, and proof points from experience/case studies, to identify new opportunities.
- Oversees technical teams for driving opportunities with the extended team. Brings in business and industry insights to address the broader business challenges for the customer and deliver solutions.
- Articulates and understands specific industry-related market trends, as well as customer threats, opportunities, and barriers to growth, as they relate to the customer's broader industry and which Microsoft solutions can play a key role.
**Trusted Advisor**
- Provides technical thought leadership inclusive of information technology (IT), business strategy knowledge, and technology landscape, and shares best practices internally. Leverages this thought leadership in partnership with account executives to set strategy, own accountability for outcomes, and lead extended teams. Provides technical guidance to internal teams to position technology while using customer landscape knowledge.
- Creates security thought leadership with the customer's executives (e.g., technical decision maker [TDM]/business decision maker [BDM]) using the Microsoft Security and Zero Trust narratives and engages TDM and BDM stakeholders to position security as a business enabler and instil a security mindset in all aspects of the customer's technology landscape.
- Leverages a broad knowledge of Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy to address customer's needs. Drives and leverages leaders from the partner ecosystem to bridge process gaps. Leverages deep understanding of their customer to share knowledge with extended team and leverages advanced knowledge of competitors to promote customer business perspectives.
- Acts as the voice of the customer, industry, and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the customer to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers) across all levels of the organisation. Drives action to ensure that internal teams understand and respond to insights. Articulates the business opportunity for Microsoft based on product gaps.
**Technology Strategy Formulation**
- Leads analysis of overall customer needs, current technology landscape, desired outcomes, and blockers. Determines key stakeholders for driving execution. Leads the adoption of technologies by plotting the long-term vision of the customer's business strategy and driving action to bring to fruition.
- Leads and ensures execution of technology strategy and digital transformation by anticipating and/or leading the resolution of technical blockers that arise during strategy planning and implementation, and driving technology adoption.
- Creates mid
- and long-term (e.g., 12 or more months) multi-horizon technology and business roadmaps for accounts based on a deep understanding of business and technology priorities and industry landscape. Challenges and validates the strategy and plan with customer stakeholders and drives envisioning and articulates business and program changes in the roadmaps around new and groundbreaking capabilities.
**Technology Sales: Demand Generation and Orchestration**
- Creates, develops, and drives opportunities by creating demand with our customers. Develops a plan, within a broader strategy, to create and qualify a set number of opportunities for product sales, solutions sales, or consumption.
- Creates new opportunities, with TDM customer stakeholders, managing consumption pipeline with extended team to maintain velocity, and unblocking issues. Defines the blueprint for opportunity initiation, and sets and shares standards and best practices for others to follow.
- Leads the customer journey into the era of AI and Security by creating a targeted approach tailored to their current business requirements and positions Micr