Digital & Application Innovation Specialist

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.  Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do.  In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. 

We are seeking a Digital & Application Innovation Specialist to join our team!

As a Digital & Application Innovation Specialist, you will be a solution sales leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers selling the entire Microsoft “Apps” portfolio, including (but not limited to): Azure Application Services (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Application Service Environment, Service Bus, etc.), PowerApps, GitHub and Visual Studio. You will lead the orchestration of a virtual team of Cloud Solution Architects, partners, and other resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed sales and usage/consumption targets for Azure Application Innovation related workloads in your assigned accounts. You will be a trusted advisor and a cloud application development subject matter expert.  

This is a unique opportunity to lead engagement in highly competitive, cloud native giants across Canada and execute Microsoft cloud deals that drive significant publicity, competitive share, and revenue for Microsoft through Azure, the Microsoft Cloud. This role has the potential to steer the engagement and partnership strategy of Microsoft’s cloud offerings through unique, creative, and competitive pursuits that will challenge and build Microsoft’s next generation cloud growth strategy.

The selected candidate for this role will have a background in software development consulting and/or selling custom software solutions and have a deep understanding of cloud native architecture, and development processes. This person loves helping customers understand the art of the possible using modern software services and technologies, stays on top of the latest trends and quickly establishes themselves as a trusted advisor at the founder level.