Solution Engineers Manager - AI workforce Solution

Microsoft; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader in Singapore is seeking a Solution Engineers Manager for AI transformation. The role entails managing a team to influence customer decisions and drive technical wins, leveraging expertise in AI solutions. Candidates should possess 7+ years of technical pre-sales or consulting experience, with strong leadership skills. This is a unique opportunity to guide enterprise customers through their AI journey, ensuring sustainable growth with Microsoft technologies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or consulting experience required.
• Bachelor's or Master's required with relevant experience.
• Technical expertise in AI and Microsoft products is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and empower team for customer engagement.
• Drive technical decisions at enterprise-level customer.
• Shape corporate marketing messages and guide AI transformation.

Skills

Technical pre-sales experience

Leadership and people management

Knowledge of AI transformation

Consulting experience

Sales methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Overview

Our purpose is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences.

By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.

In the AI Business Solutions (ABS) Solution Engineer team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible leaders who will follow the model | coach | care approach to developing and winning team sales strategy that will deliver on the ABS Solution Area goals.

Microsoft Solution Engineers Manager – AI workforce Solution build, develop and lead teams of Solution Engineers to identify and win over the technical decision maker in the Business and IT department of our Enterprise Customers. You and your team will drive technical decisions at the customer that helps them achieve Business value with the Microsoft Platform, and thereby secure long-term sustainable growth for Microsoft. As a Solution Engineers Manager – AI workforce Solution, you will be a key leader to helping customers embrace and succeed through AI Transformation.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for People Management by delivering success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• You will enable and empower the team to influence customer decisions and ensure technical wins by streamlining processes and managing the flow of wins, leveraging deep knowledge of processes, aligning goals across solution areas and facilitating cross‑selling with various workloads.
• You will orchestrate team resources and coach the team to maximize impact of customer engagements and drive mid‑to‑long‑term strategy through cross‑workload capacity planning, prioritization, and utilization of resources. You will proactively plan team resources and influence future blueprints.
• You will maximize area‑level capacity and capabilities of scaling through partners by coaching the team to grow partner network, identifying gaps and promoting Microsoft within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams). You will raise escalations or alleviate blockers through collaboration with manager‑level counterparts in cross‑functional groups.
• You will build compete strategy, coach, and provide support to internal teams and work with local marketing teams to shape corporate domain messages.
• You will oversee coach team in guiding customers through AI transformation solutions and applying advanced sales methodologies, while envisioning new and innovative solutions that use Microsoft technology to meet customer needs and identifying new technical and business trends/needs serving as the voice of the customer (VOC) to Microsoft.
• You will enable and empower team to develop technical expertise and act as a technical thought leader by sharing best practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre‑sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre‑sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or related field AND 4+ years technical pre‑sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience

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.