Sales Specialist - Windows and Device Sales

Overview

With a vision to build and sell Microsoft AI‑powered platforms, cloud services, and devices through a broad partner ecosystem, the Windows and Device Sales (WDS) organization brings together sales, technical expertise, and partners to help customers achieve meaningful business outcomes with Microsoft technology. WDS plays a critical role in shaping and delivering the endpoint platform that powers modern, secure, and AI‑enabled work. WDS works across Microsoft’s commercial ecosystem, including OEMs, silicon partners, distributors, resellers, and services partners, to drive Windows platform adoption, strengthen technology security and help customers realize long‑term value from their device and endpoint investments.

This role contributes to a multi‑billion‑dollar business and plays a direct role in securing and expanding Windows as a trusted enterprise endpoint platform. You will work with customers to modernize their environments, adopt AI‑driven workflows, and build confidence in Windows as the foundation for future innovation. As a Windows and Device Sales Specialist, you will strengthen and expand Windows within Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers.

You will help them define and modernize their endpoint strategy in an era shaped by AI, security threats, and rapid platform competition. You will operate as a trusted advisor to senior IT and business leaders, anchoring engagement with the CIO while expanding influence across CTO, CISO, and AI transformation leaders to ensure Windows remains the trusted platform for secure, AI‑driven work. In this role, you will lead high‑impact, time‑bound customer engagements where Windows platform decisions are at risk or strategically critical.

You will articulate the value of Windows across security, resiliency, management, and AI workloads; orchestrate partners and internal teams to deliver proof and outcomes; and translate successful customer engagements into repeatable best practices that can be scaled across industries and partner ecosystems. This opportunity will allow you to deepen executive‑level consultative skills, expand your technical and platform expertise across the Windows ecosystem, and play a visible role in protecting and expanding Microsoft’s commercial footprint in priority accounts. 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. #WDS

Responsibilities

Lead Windows endpoint strategy with senior executives: Leverage your technical expertise to lead strategic Windows discussions with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and AI leaders, translating technology capabilities into business value.

Defend and extend Windows in competitive environments, deepen insights on why customers adopt alternative platforms, articulate fact based & differentiated platform value to protect the Windows socket.

Modernize endpoint management and identity architectures, helping customers decouple from legacy environments, improve total cost of ownership, and unlock AI‑driven workflows at scale.

Lead high‑impact customer engagements across discovery, envisioning, proof, and value realization, with clear entry criteria, success measures, and exit plans.

Deliver impactful wins that demonstrate real Windows AI value, converting customer outcomes into evidence such as case studies, reference architectures, and repeatable industry scenarios.

Orchestrate across internal teams and partners, working closely with account teams, engineering, and OEM/channel partners to ensure clarity of roles, clear hand-offs, escalation process, and accelerated outcomes.

Provide structured feedback and insights from customer engagements to inform product, go‑to‑market, and partner strategy, identifying patterns that can scale across similar customers.

Embody our Culture  & Values

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, Information Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.4+ years solution or services sales experience. Solution Area Specialists IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $103,500 - CAD $170,700 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Solution Area Specialists IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 103,500 $ CAD à 170,700 $ CAD par année. Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

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

Microsoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la demande d’accommodement.

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.

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