Solution Sales Senior Director - Data Platform - Remote Eligible

Solution Sales Senior Director - Data Platform

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, 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 achieve this mission. We envision a world where passionate innovators come together to collaborate, taking the business to the next level and their careers to places they simply couldn’t elsewhere. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and sky’s-the-limit thinking – a cloud-enabled world.

The Azure Data Platform Sales team in the Commercial Solution Area (CSA) organization positions the value of our best-in-class Azure Database and Analytics solutions and services to enable customers to accelerate their data-driven digital transformation.

The Solution Sales Senior Director - Data Platform will shape and lead Microsoft’s CDO Advisory program, managing a team of senior CDO Advisors who engage with Chief Data Officers of our top enterprise customers. This leader balances strategic vision with operational execution, ensuring the team not only formulates bold data & AI strategies but also delivers results on the ground. The CDO Advisors in this team are responsible for accelerating Azure Data & AI adoption in key accounts (with particular focus on large Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) customers) by building deep trust-based relationships at the CxO level resulting in high concentration within MACC for Data Platform.

By guiding customers to build strong data foundations for AI transformation and to standardize on Microsoft's Intelligent Data Platform, the CDO Advisors drive significant cloud growth and document best practices to scale success across Microsoft’s field teams. This leader is a great coach with a challenger mentality, fluent in sales-leadership practices, and drives vision with flawless execution across diverse customer scenarios.

Developing the talent and culture needed in our organization to deliver on our Data & AI ambitions is a core responsibility of the CDO Advisory leader. By championing growth and fostering capability, the CDO Advisory leader ensures that teams are prepared to meet the evolving demands of data-driven transformation.