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At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.
Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love—start your journey with us today!
* This is a 16-week summer internship with start dates in May 2023
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently pursuing or have completed Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Passion for technology and customer obsessed.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
- Strong balance of both business and technical skills
- Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills
- Technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience is a plus
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Technology Specialists:
Technology Specialist Engages with and guides customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. Leverages sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. Understands customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers. Acts as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations.
Responsibilities:
- Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.
- Reviews customer interactions and raises competitive information to account teams to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.
- Contributes to product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback.
- Tailors Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products.
- Contributes to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements and coaching from senior colleagues. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment.
- Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.
