Director Partner Business Evangelism Microsoft Redmond

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The Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX) team is looking for an inspirational and motivated Director-level candidate to lead the Enabler Ecosystem recruiting team. This person should demonstrate exceptional leadership and management skills with a combination of business development and technical expertise
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Cloud Computing is the next step toward ubiquitous and pervasive computing for the world. Microsoft Azure is our cloud computing platform used to build, host, and scale web applications and is a strategic focus for the company. Join the worldwide ISV team in the Developer Experience (DX) organization in recruiting key cloud ISVs to develop their applications on our cloud platform. You will guide your team to work closely with the broader Microsoft teams including engineering, GTM and Marketing to engage our ISV partners and drive applications to market. You and your team will help partners build out their Azure practice by providing leadership to our sales organizations in identifying customer opportunities that will leverage the cloud and bringing Azure applications into production.

In this role, you would be responsible for:
• Recruiting, hiring, and retaining strong talent to build out your team
• Managing a high performing team and driving deployment of high quality and top category ISV’s
• Securing targeted app wins with key ISVs in your specified categories
• Ongoing evangelism of the full Microsoft Azure Platform
• Creating Azure opportunity development plans compatible with overall Microsoft account management strategies
• Accurately representing your business at executive business reviews
• Delivering ongoing market and competitive insights to the business group

The ideal candidate will have:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Enterprise business development, software consulting or development
• Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging trends
• Strong knowledge of Software as a Service business model and implementation strategies
• Exceptional leadership skills and community building
• Proven record of growing new businesses and building technical relationships with senior executives
• Results driven; strong analytical skills with exceptional verbal and written communication
• Exceptional decision-making, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, and follow through
• BS/BA degree, MBA preferred

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