Microsoft delivers the world’s most secure, scalable, and trusted Cloud. To meet and exceed our customer’s expectations, Microsoft is also investing deeply in solutions for multiple and strategic functional domains – all delivered with and through the world’s most robust channel of GSI, ISV’s, and global technology companies. Microsoft is looking for experts to help our customers successfully transform their digital enterprise through technology, process, and culture.

The Enterprise Functions team is part of Microsoft’s Industry Solutions organization. This team combines the experience and understanding we have gained in our own journey at Microsoft using and delivering digital technology with the strength of our global partners - enabling enterprise organizations to achieve more.

To support these efforts, Enterprise Functions are hiring a Chief Technology Officer. This position will have three primary responsibilities: Lead executive level technology conversations to understand the digital transformation goals and challenges of our customers and global partners; leverage experience across multiple industries and technologies to guide customers from a broad agreement to partner with Microsoft to a specific program of work in support of specific outcomes and measurable success criteria; evangelize Microsoft’s unique value proposition and differentiation across focus industries and initiatives to positively influence and support marketing, partner, engineering, sales and other relevant stakeholders.

A successful candidate will have a unique combination of industry experience, broad/deep technology expertise – from microservices, data, and AI to productivity, business, and citizen developer applications – while showing a proven record of being inventive, comfortable working in ambiguous, complex environments, and adept at managing large enterprise customers, analysts, partners, and other key audiences. You must demonstrate strong consultative leadership, be flexible, able to multi-task, meet deadlines, and be comfortable working independently.

You are a great fit for this position if you:

• Are entrepreneurial and self-motivated
• Quickly bring order to nebulous and ambiguous situations
• Are agile and willing to embrace change
• Are rigorously accountable & positive
• Are willing to wear many hats and contribute across disciplines
• Are familiar with and inspired by trends in design and new technologies
• Are outstanding at storytelling products and benefits of investing
• Have experience working on a multi-disciplinary team of designers and developers
• Have strong brainstorming skills, from participation to leadership
• Are capable of reducing complex concepts into understandable, actionable tasks
• Have shipped multiple far reaching products

Responsibilities

• Be the leading voice on cross-industry and domain-specific digital transformation for our global consulting organization
• Model Microsoft's technology vision and act as role model, while developing strategies to extend Microsoft Cloud into all market segments to achieve customer and partner transformation goals
• Inspire leaders of state and enterprise, regulators, and customers on how best to leverage innovation to drive digital transformation
• Act as an evangelist who inspires internal audiences through clarity of message and setting of best practices

Strategic Solution Development

• Engage at the executive level in customers and Microsoft to understand ambitions, goals and existing digital transformation strategies
• Use experience cross-industry and in functional domains to help the team identify new validated use cases to incubate new solutions which shape customer ambitions and identify pathways towards greater impact across environmental, societal and economic environments
• Lead cross disciplinary teams to incubate key cross industry solutions working with engineering groups, Industry Solutions teams, and partners\ISV solutions.
• Develop reference architectures
• Support sales, marketing, partner, and other stakeholder teams by providing guidance and expertise around Microsoft cross industry initiatives and solutions
• Develop IP and readiness content to build sales and delivery capabilities around cross industry initiatives and offerings

Internal Collaboration

• Establish and maintain an internal network of resources to assist in solving customer challenges
• Engage across product engineering groups to align customer objectives with product roadmaps and influence future product direction
• Participate in intra-group and/or cross-group projects and ensures accountability by leveraging project management approaches.
• Escalate intra- and cross-group misalignment as needed.
• Track relevant solutions being developed across different Industry Solutions teams to harvest IP and develop offerings.
• Proactively collaborate with and influence internal stakeholders across functions to ensure a mutual understanding and alignment of objectives, priorities, and resources

Representing Microsoft

• Communicate Microsoft’s technology perspective on key cross-industry solutions and initiatives
• Understand and applies detailed knowledge of Microsoft strategies to drive results and customer outcomes.
• Develop recommendations for how customers can use Microsoft technology to solve societal issues and create opportunities
• Participate in large internal and external events to advocate for Microsoft’s ability to help enterprise customers with their digital transformation goals
• Always looking for exceptional and diverse talent to reinforce our business

Key accountabilities include:

• Drive & Accelerate production-level Cloud Solutions in line with Customer and Microsoft strategy.
• Make the Market with innovative Digital Transformation and Modernization projects.
• Drive a positive Customer Experience by providing high quality delivery.
• Deliver Business and Operational Excellence.
• In all that you do, demonstrate Technical Leadership: Create Clarity, Generate Energy and Deliver Success
• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years’ experience leading strategy and delivering solutions for multiple industries and/or solution domains
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 6+ years’ experience leading strategy and delivering solutions for multiple industries and/or solution domains
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years’ experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• 8+ years’ experience engaging at C-level suite including CXO, CTO/CIO level; leadership of Global ISV, GSI, and technology partners; Analyst Leadership

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 15+ years’ experience leading strategy and delivering solutions for multiple industries and/or solution domains
  • OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 12+ years’ experience leading strategy and delivering solutions for multiple industries and/or solution domains
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship).
• 6+ years’ experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• Combined Industry &Technology background with passion for data
• Depth of experience building solutions for and going to market in multiple industries
• Understand and can effectively communicate technology concepts ranging from microservices, data, and AI, to business applications (customer facing, operations, supply chain), citizen development and more
• Understand cloud economics, as well as the cultural imperatives of digital transformation
• Understand the compete environment across the above areas as well as strong experience in Microsoft and other channels
• Shipped multiple far reaching products involving hardware and software integration

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $171,600 and $258,200

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

Location/Travel: You may be based anywhere in the United States. You can expect limited global travel, 0 – 25%, contingent upon Covid-19 restrictions.