Sr. Business Development Manager - Digital Natives

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, being diverse and inclusive 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.

This is a unique opportunity for a bold, customer oriented, strategic thinking sales professional to help identify unique prospects and execute Microsoft cloud deals that drive significant publicity, competitive share, and revenue for the Microsoft Azure platform. The primary focus will be onstart-ups and ISV's that are transforming key verticals.

The High Tech Pursuits - Startup and Unicorn Program at Microsoft is at the leading edge of our business and one of the fastest growing and most exciting groups at the Company. We operate like a startup within Microsoft and the team driving this initiative is incredibly entrepreneurial and high-performance.

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The collective responsibility of the High Tech Pursuits team is:

• Leading and shaping the future of high potential startups and unicorns based on locally set selection criteria
• Assessing external data identifying those startups and unicorns, qualifying them based oncurrent status, scores, cost of complexity and acquisition as well as internal Microsoft relationship and relevance (any upcoming ISV that can scale and go big)
• Engaging with this segment to prioritize the right motion for a potential unicorn WIN (either through projects on Azure at the start, strategic partnership with commitment, or exclusivity on a specific workload)
• Building strategic partnerships at the right time, with those unicorns to accelerate their growth and build new solutions
• Envisioning new industry scenarios and business models with the unicorns
• Driving technical alignment with the v-technical team across segments (CSU, STU, GBBs, Engineering, CSE)