Global AI Go-To-Market Strategy Lead, Machine Learning

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The Azure AI team is a growing organization that consists of Specialist and Technology experts, who focus on specific domains, industries, and workloads, such as Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Services, Application Development and Machine Learning.   
 
As the Global AI Go-To-Market Strategy Lead, Machine Learning, you will work within our worldwide Data & AI commercial solution area, collaborating with internal organizations, to build and execute the global sales strategy for the Machine Learning portfolio on Azure, with a focus on Azure Machine Learning and AI Infrastructure.  You will create and lead sales programs that solve customer challenges leveraging machine learning patterns. You will partner with Marketing and Engineering teams to share customer feedback and influence machine learning product strategy. You will be accountable for overall business revenue for machine learning and AI infrastructure, owning the rhythms to review key reporting metrics and addressing market opportunities. 

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Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (2 years out), Management Consulting, Sales, or Finance. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of AI (Machine Learning, Deep Learning) experience in enterprise public cloud-based solutions.
• 5+ years of experience either directly selling, or building sales programs, associated with Machine Learning and AI Infrastructure
• Advanced understanding of data science processes and machine learning lifecycles within an enterprise organization (ML Ops, model management, data integration, responsible AI, etc.). 
• Experience with AI-specialized infrastructure (e.g. NC/ND Series VMs).
• Common understanding of industry or functional scenarios that include machine learning (ex: predictive maintenance, recommendation engines, demand forecasting, knowledge mining, etc.).

Sales Strategy Enablement IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $124,800 - $242,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $159,000 - $264,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Go-To-Market (GTM) Leadership and Program Development

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of AI-led sales programs and plays, especially in collaboration with key Microsoft partners, to grow the overall market share of Azure Machine Learning and relevant ML products, especially for custom and opensource Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Coach worldwide sales teams, including individual contributors and sales managers, for effective execution of machine learning and AI infrastructure programs.
• Collaborate with AI sales leads, the partner organization, marketing teams, engineering, and other teams to drive effective coordinate cross-business strategies.

Ownership of worldwide business results and insights.

• Accountability for the growth and target attainment of the worldwide AI consumption budgets, specifically for Machine Learning and AI Infrastructure.
• Actively drive and manage the performance of the AI sales programs, demonstrating positive sales programs impact on Machine Learning and AI Infrastructure consumption and adoption, particularly for pipeline generation and acceleration.
• Identify, capture, and communicate customer, partner, and seller feedback and insights on sales program effectiveness and use this to inform the sales strategy and program evolution, as well as surface through key business review rhythms.

Product and Technology Leadership

• External and Internal thought leadership engagement to raise awareness land key messaging of Machine Learning portfolio and how the technology delivers business outcomes.
• Learnings and insights on the strengths and weaknesses of competitive offerings and market trends related to Machine Learning  

Other

• Embody our culture and values