Director, Technology Center - Chicago, United States - Microsoft

Microsoft

Verified Company

Chicago, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) are collaborative environments that provide the place, experience, and expertise to help organizations achieve their digital transformation ambitions by leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and services.

We live Microsoft's mission 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.

Microsoft is hiring a Director of the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) located in Chicago, IL, and this is an on-site role.

The MTC Director is a customer and technical leader at the forefront of our customers' digital transformation. The mission of the Microsoft Technology Centers is to drive an extraordinary customer experience.

The MTC Director manages a state-of-the-art facility and customer experiences where we take on customers' most challenging and complex scenarios - business and technical - to help them achieve transformational business outcomes.

You will lead an elite technology team with extraordinary consultative skills and experience. Core to the role is managing Microsoft, Partner, and strategic relationships to enable scale and consistency. You will work on complex projects for top companies—from start-ups to our largest global partners. You will move seamlessly between on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and mobile solutions.

You will be a strategic leader for the Microsoft Chicago sales and partner ecosystem and help set the direction for how we articulate Microsoft's vision and differentiate from our competition.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

Responsibilities:

Obsessed about the customer and partner experience at the MTC. Experience is more than extraordinary execution; It is about rallying a team around a proven process that enables results for the customer.
Lead and grow an extraordinary team of Technical Architects where a culture of feedback enables a learning environment to keep pace with innovation.
Recruit, hire, develop, and retain MTC team members. Build collaboration and create an environment that values diversity, respect, and open communication.
Grow revenue, consumption, and expand the footprint in strategic targeted accounts through the execution of sales and marketing programs.
Own relationships with Microsoft sales, marketing, and partner leadership across all segments in the MTC's geography.
Perform as overall leader responsible for the MTC facility and operations, team, reporting, expenses, and budgeting. Be the single pointofcontact for MTC performance and status reporting within the geography.
Develop strategic relationships with customers, Account Managers, Technical Specialists, Solution Specialists, Services, and other key Microsoft teams across the geography's accounts. Position the MTC's offerings to our internal and external customers and work collaboratively to determine the best combination/course of action for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit.
Build constructive relationships with peers in the Americas and WW communities. Share learnings with others in the MTC community, field, partners, and corporate.
Maintain technical competence across Azure, Microsoft 365, Security and Business Applications.
Other
Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of technical presales or technical consulting experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technical presales or technical consulting experience
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical presales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience.
7+ years of enterprise customerfacing experience identifying technical requirements, leading discovery, envisioning, strategy, and technical close plan discussions with CxOs, BDM (Business Decision Makers), technical SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), LoBs (line of business) in technical presales/sales, customer successtype roles, and/or experience leading organizationwide digital transformation projects.
5+ years of demonstrated experience in leading high performing customer facing technical teams to drive impact and influence sales.

Additional Qualifications:

10+ years' enterprise experience with consultative or solution selling processes
3+ years of People Management experience.
Familiarity with cloud solutions is highly desirable: Azure, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), AWS (Amazon Web Services) (IBM (International Business Machines), IBM (International Business Machines), etc.
Demonstrated project management skills and experience, and ability to effectively