Developer Productivity Specialist - Emerging Markets (GBB)

The Developer Productivity Specialist Global Black Belt (Dev Productivity GBB) for Emerging Markets is a senior sales role with experience in the Developer Tools business that will play a pivotal role in establishing our presence in high-growth markets. The role will be responsible for bootstrapping the developer tools business in regions with large concentration of enterprise developers. This role will partner and build v-teams with people across Microsoft’s and GitHub’s marketing, sales and partner organizations to develop a strong sales pipeline, land net new logos and accelerate adoption of our Developer Tools portfolio across GitHub and Microsoft, such as GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Dev Box.

This role sits in our Global Black Belt (GBB) organization, which is a team of highly specialized professionals within our Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions organization (MCAPS) who work with customers to enable some of the most complex and innovative solutions, providing differentiated technical leadership and guidance along the way.

This role will require travel to customer sites.

This role is flexible in that you can work [up to 75%] from home.

Please note that we can only consider candidates that currently live and a tax resident of Israel or Greece. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Strong and proven experience of technology-related sales or account management experience:
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND strong technology-related sales or account management experience.
• Understanding the Software Development Lifecycle and concepts such as DevOps, Developer Productivity and DevSecOps. The position requires the ability to articulate and demonstrate the business value of Microsoft’s and GitHub’s solutions and have a firm understanding of Microsoft and GitHub’s strategies and products. [Preferred]
• Solution Sales Experience: 5+ years in customer-facing advisory or sales to demonstrate the ability to distill core technical concepts and connect them to business outcomes. Work experience should involve presales, technical consulting, solution design, project envisioning, planning, development, deployment, and management. Proven customer facing consultative skills.
• A consultative selling mindset grounded in customer-obsession, you gain energy from listening to customers and learning deeply about their challenges.
• You thrive in ambiguity and love charting new territory, leading the way for others.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership. Experience leading large enterprise engagements especially those involving Developer tools and platforms and related. Preferred
• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and platform competitor landscape. Preferred
• Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.

• Develops a comprehensive market entry strategy, considering local nuances and competitive landscape in partnership with Microsoft and GitHub sales teams
• Leads end-to-end customer initiatives about Developer Productivity and modern software development practices such as DevOps, DevSecOps, AI-assisted Software Development, Cloud Development Environments and Platform Engineering
• Identify, create, and close pipeline by aligning to customer priorities, delivering competitive positioning, and effectively leveraging Microsoft’s ecosystem of resources, partners, programs, and tools.
• Maintain a healthy and verifiable pipeline and execute on each MCEM phase to consistently achieve sales goals.
• Proactively deliver envisioning workshops, strategy briefings, solution demonstrations, and whiteboarding to gain customer commitment.
• Influence Microsoft’s and GitHub’s go-to-market and product strategies and roadmaps by documenting and sharing insights to sales, marketing, and engineering stakeholders on current and future product requirements, sales blockers and customer feedback.