AI Workforce Sales Leader

The AI Workforce Sales Leader is a senior sales leadership role responsible for driving Microsoft's AI-powered transformation across a large, high-impact Financial Services portfolio, with a strong focus on Banking. This leader will set the vision and strategy for engaging executive stakeholders, articulating the AI market landscape, and accelerating adoption of cutting-edge AI solutions that deliver meaningful business outcomes for customers. The role requires deep fluency in the AI ecosystem and the ability to tell a compelling, forward-looking AI story-connecting market trends, customer challenges, and technology innovation into a clear value proposition.

In this role, you will lead and develop a seasoned sales organization, owning pipeline strategy, forecasting accuracy, and go-to-market execution across a complex territory. Success requires proven experience leading large sales teams, managing sophisticated enterprise pipelines, and partnering closely with customers to shape long-term AI strategies. While industry experience in Banking or Financial Services is beneficial, priority will be given to candidates with strong AI domain expertise and experience selling or shaping AI solutions in-market today. This is a critical leadership role for a results-driven sales executive who thrives at the intersection of AI innovation, customer impact, and people leadership.

TheAI Workforce Sales Leader leads discussions with customer stakeholders and decision makers to identify, qualify, prioritize and accelerate sales opportunities. Supports the development of solutions to enable AI- and cloud-driven transformations for existing and new customers within the region. Engages in sales pipeline reviews to drive forecasting accuracy and maintains sales and/or consumption pipeline hygiene to enable tracking to achieve assigned sales metrics using all available tools, resources, and processes. Analyzes business and emerging opportunities to improve the customer portfolio and encourage customer innovation, while leveraging technology to drive growth. Assesses and qualifies sales opportunities following sales frameworks and guidelines, utilizing AI-driven insights and tools to provide personalized solutions, tailored recommendations, and strategic guidance that foster long-term trusted relationships throughout the customer sales journey, while incorporating and aligning within the customer's security priorities.

Leads and mentors multiple teams in discussions with senior stakeholders and decision makers for high-value customers to deepen relationships and identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities. Sets strategy for teams on whitespace analysis and identifying business opportunities and market gaps within the assigned territory, utilizing AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights. Leads team in comprehensively evaluating of territory and crafts strategic insights to align sales initiatives with customer business priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Leads teams in the development and implementation of solutions to enable artificial intelligence (AI)- and cloud-driven transformations for existing and new customers across the territory, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies and cloud services. Leads teams on leading sales pipeline reviews across the territory with internal senior stakeholders to drive forecasting accuracy and meeting sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. Coaches team on leading the sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing Microsoft's dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Solution Area Specialists M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 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 $170,300 - $239,800 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.