Overview 

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. 

​This is a unique opportunity for a bold, customer oriented, strategic leader to lead a highly visible sales team to successfully partner with cloud natives across the Americas and execute Microsoft cloud deals that drive significant publicity, competitive share, and revenue for Microsoft through the Microsoft Cloud.  This role has the potential to steer the engagement and partnership strategy of Microsoft’s cloud offerings through unique, creative, and competitive pursuits that will challenge and build Microsoft’s next generation cloud growth strategy. 

Microsoft’s Software and Digital Platforms (SDP) enterprise organization partners with the most strategic ISV's, software development firms, and digital platform companies in the United States - across B2B and B2C portfolios. This field organization is a reimagining of how Microsoft goes-to-market by enabling our customers to become cloud-scale digital natives themselves through partnership with Microsoft and the resources only Microsoft can bring to the table. The SDP Americas Digital Natives team is looking for a sales leader able to model and coach a team on delivering success through forging new and innovative cloud partnerships with cloud-native giants not utilizing the Microsoft Cloud today. This role will require deep competitive knowledge, collaborative skills, and executive presence across internal Microsoft stakeholders as well as with external customer relationships, acting as an advocate, trusted advisor, and active stakeholder in the business of our customers. 

The Manager, Azure Digital Native Specialists role will lead a team that strategically hunts for new business across a select portfolio of Digital Natives in the United States with a goal of increasing cloud spend and cloud market and wallet share for Microsoft.