Microsoft

Digital Account Executive

Microsoft$85K — $168K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, IT, Marketing or related field with 3+ years in sales or 5+ years in negotiation experience.
  • Preferred Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, IT, Marketing or equivalent with 8+ years in sales or 10+ years in tech sales.
  • Strong negotiation skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse teams.
  • Experience in customer engagement and relationship management, especially with C-Suite executives.
  • Knowledge of cloud solutions and digital transformation processes.

Responsibilities

  • Generate new sales pipeline through engagement with CxOs, ITDMs, and BDMs.
  • Maintain strong relationships with customers and advocate for their needs within Microsoft.
  • Identify key decision-makers in customer organizations through strategic engagement.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction by proactively managing relationships and addressing issues.
  • Develop strategic territory plans, utilizing resources effectively to maximize outcomes.
  • Assist customers in implementing cloud solutions and optimizing their business results.
  • Build and manage partnerships to expand revenue opportunities and enhance service delivery.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career growth and skill development in sales and collaboration.
  • Access to digital tools and processes to drive customer success.
  • Strong focus on customer advocacy within the organization.
  • Exposure to industry-leading cloud technologies and AI solutions.
Full Job Description
Overview

Job Overview

The Digital Account Executive facilitates Microsoft to better serve our Medium Enterprise managed clients realize their potential and help them on their Digital Transformation journey. The Account Executive adds value by developing and maintaining strong customer relationships that include building relationships with executives at the Chief-level (CxO) as well as other Business and Technical Decision Makers within the customers' organizations. The Digital Account Executive has to effectively leverage all the digital tools and processes available and orchestrate the other members of the team to address customer needs and requirements. Additionally, the Digital Account Executive engages with Partners to be able to find the best solution that will address the customer needs.

Efficiently orchestrate resources between different sales and specialized roles. Excel in key business processes such as territory management, pipeline management and overall business disciplines. Accountable for forecasting expected sales revenue.

Also the voice of the customer for Microsoft and share industry and competitive knowledge. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your sales and collaboration skills, and deepen cloud expertise.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

  • Customer Engagement


    • Focuses on generating new pipeline by engaging with CXOs, ITDM and BDMs through territory planning, marketing signals and digital assets


    • Central point maintaining strong customer relationships and advocates for customers within the organization/Microsoft.


    • Surfaces customer organization structure to identify decision makers leveraging partners and v-teams.


    • Engages with C-Suite executives. Focuses on customer satisfaction metrics. Takes ownership for issues and reaches out to customers to reinforce engagement.


    • Ensures continuity of customer accounts and monitors customer satisfaction metrics by proactively establishing conditions of satisfaction at outset of engagement and managing escalation process.


  • Account Management


    • Thinks strategically about sales territory for accounts, setting standards and priorities, outlining where to and how to leverage specialized and technical resources and other roles, engaging internal and external decision makers on long-term business planning.


    • Helps existing/new customers to cloud solutions via a cohesive plan across adds, consumption, , through upsell, co-sell motions, and renewal maximizing customer business outcomes and experience


    • Understands and accelerates customer's AI and cloud strategy.


    • Builds enough pipeline to have a growing and sustainable business every single quarter.


  • Partnering


    • Builds partner relationships to drive scale and revenue. Coaches and influences partners to consider different solution needs.


    • Coordinates resources across teams to execute territory plans with partners. Leads teams on territory management best practices and techniques. Validates plans, drives accountability, and coaches teams to achieve or exceed plans. Drives strategic partner participation. Holds partners accountable to contribute to territory plan.


  • Maintain Product, Solution and Industry Expertise -


    • Proactively builds and maintains a strong knowledge of Microsoft's products, landscape, solutions, and strategy in the industry of assigned accounts, as well as of the business priorities; demonstrates a strong understanding of the customers' business strategy and the direction of the industry.


  • Orchestrates specialized resources to engage with customers to provide strong solutions-based and technology-based engagement to help customers address their challenges and opportunities.


  • Leverages additional resources such as partners to engage with the customer to provide the right solution to the customer on their transformation journey.


Qualifications
Required/Minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 3+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work experience OR 5+ years sales and negotiation experience OR equivalent experience.


Preferred/Additional qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 8+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work experience OR 10+ years technology sales and negotiation experience OR equivalent experience.


Digital Account Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $40.96 - $80.96 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 $60.96 - $86.11 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
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