Are you inspired to help customers empower their employees, maximize the employee experience, and do great work using the devices and apps they love, now enhanced with the transformative power of AI? We are seeking individuals to guide customers through significant changes as we embrace generative AI through Copilot, Copilot+ PCs, and Windows in the Cloud. Microsoft is leading this evolution, enabling organizations to reimagine their business for success in this new era. With AI integration, physical Windows devices, as well as Cloud PCs offer unprecedented flexibility and efficiency, allowing for a seamless transition between on-premise and remote work environments. Join us in helping organizations leverage AI to optimize workflows, foster innovation, and secure their operations, all while providing a familiar and powerful Windows experience across any device.
As a pre-sales Cloud Endpoint Technology Specialist, your primary goal is to establish confidence and win our customer's trust to use cutting-edge virtualization solutions that leverage the power of Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. Your role will be pivotal in enabling a secure, compliant, and efficient Cloud PC experience for customers, ensuring they can enable their end users to access their personalized Windows environment on any device. With a focus on Cloud PC management through Intune, you will streamline deployment and maintenance, while staying abreast of the latest virtualization technologies, including GPU-enabled Cloud PCs for high-performance needs. You will partner closely with the solution sales specialists to understand our customer’s business challenges, determine the necessary technology strategy and remove technical blockers enabling digital transformation. This role is designed for those who thrive in a flexible work environment, allowing you to work remotely and drive transformational outcomes for customers in the virtualization space.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Domain Expertise You will develop and maintain advanced to expert level technical subject matter expertise in Microsoft products and product differentiators in assigned Solutions Plays (including Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Intune, Windows 11, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Surface and managed service solutions).
Scale Customer Engagements You will be a trusted advisor and consultative technical seller with a growth mindset by developing and maintaining advanced to expert level delivery, discovery, demo, and whiteboarding skills.
Build Strategy You will foster and expand Microsoft’s relationships by engaging with key business- and IT contacts, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition of Microsoft’s Virtualization solutions (Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop). You will be knowledgeable about Microsoft product strengths and the weaknesses of our competition in order to unblock competitive blockers and win the technical decision for Microsoft.
Solution Design and Proof You will win the technical decision and intent by gaining a deep understanding of a customer’s business and differentiate Microsoft in complex selling environments by sharing insights, reframing the status quo and quantifying business impact that motivates customers to take action. You will know when and how to escalate blockers, when to push back on customer objections, and how to unblock technical blockers with the customer.
Scale Through Partners you will engage in partner sell-with scenarios by collaborating with partners to carry out technical engagement activities and acting as a source of trusted partner knowledge.

Qualifications

• Several years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience in virtualization technologies, preferably around Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop in combination with Intune- or other Infrastructure Management- incl. Non-Microsoft solutions.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• preferrably fluent in German or French.

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