QualificationsCommunication skillsAccount managementBachelor’s degree
Microsoft continues to invest over $1B per year in security and research to enable its customers to confidently move to the cloud and modernize their platforms. We deliver the security, compliance, and identity solutions they need to keep their data safe.
As a Security Global Black Belt (GBB) you will be a senior solution sales leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers and deals. You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner, marketing and engineering resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales and usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your accounts. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
The Impact You’ll be Making – As a Security GBB you will:
Be the technical opportunity owner and expert for your assigned set of accounts:
Identify new Threat Intelligence and Attack Surface Management deals through integrating into Microsoft’s XDR+SIEM/SOAR and multi-cloud security motions
Land the full value of threat intelligence and external attack surface management with customers
Drive complex and strategic deals in alignment with Security Solution Specialists and Area Sales Leads within assigned territory by setting and achieving monthly sales forecasts
Act as subject matter expertise for Threat intelligence and attack surface management workloads, navigating industry and complex deal orchestration, supporting competitor displacement opportunities, and sharing proven practices with the field through readiness and coaching to accelerate sales opportunities
Engage confidently at CxO level to articulate RiskIQ’s value proposition and how Microsoft can enable the modern framework for protecting critical infrastructure, minimizing future incidents, and creating a safer world
Be the interface to the customer and orchestrate a v-team of resources to solve customer problems:
Identify customer business and technology challenges and bring them to agreement on the business value of Security solutions for mega deals – including detailed relevant BDM, ITDM & Industry use cases, solution briefings and demos, and financial analysis
Establish relationship with key partners to drive Security opportunities and showcase co-sell approach to field sellers
Build competency and expertise for majors by completing all required readiness (Measure: Achieve expert level on assigned Majors)
Support key strategic deals aligned with Security Sales Managers, orchestrating key resources consisting of technical and partner roles across an extensive portfolio of products, escalating issues for internal business and technical teams, and providing updates on status of mega-deals for your territory
Foster and expand Microsoft’s relationships with Customer Business Decision Makers and support sales teams to blockers to evaluation, contracting, deployment, and usage
Mentor Security Specialist members of the team and lead the community to foster best practice sharing
Scale impact by transferring knowledge and building local capabilities for the field
Demonstrate advanced demo, business case and compete skills and share demoing practices with the SCIM community
Stay sharp and assist Microsoft transform how we deliver value to customers:
Continuously nurture and expand sales, business, technology, and competitive readiness
Participate in internal Microsoft technical & sales communities and in the broader industry through events, Yammer, Teams sites, blogs, training, community gatherings and more
Influence engineering and product groups with closed loop feedback supporting refining the sales process and product updates
Qualifications
Skills, Experience, and Requirements:
A strong candidate will possess as many of the following skills and experiences as possible:
Strong technical background in security, compliance, and identity
Fluency with cyber threat intelligence threats, trends, and developments
Familiarity with Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by common, well known cyber threat actors
Understanding of cyber security roles and personas who will be consumers of Threat Intelligence such as Security Operations Center (SOC), Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting
Technical understanding of how the internet works and functions
Ability to talk effectively to both a technical and non-technical audience
Exceptional problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
Strong presentation and communication skills
Proven competency to collaborate cross organizations, deal with ambiguity and drive impact without direct authority
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of technology/security-related sales or account management experience
OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
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.
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