.The Senior Developer Productivity Specialist Global Black Belt (Sr Dev Productivity GBB) for Emerging Markets is a senior sales role with experience in the Developer Tools business that will play a pivotal role in establishing our presence in high-growth markets. The role will be responsible for bootstrapping the developer tools business in regions with large concentration of enterprise developers. This role will partner and build v-teams with people across Microsoft's and GitHub's marketing, sales, and partner organizations to develop a strong sales pipeline, land net new logos, and accelerate adoption of our Developer Tools portfolio across GitHub and Microsoft, such as GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security, and Microsoft Dev Box.This role sits in our Global Black Belt (GBB) organization, which is a team of highly specialized professionals within our Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions organization (MCAPS) who work with customers to enable some of the most complex and innovative solutions, providing differentiated technical leadership and guidance along the way.This role will require travel to customer sites and is flexible in that you can work up to 75% from home.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.Responsibilities Develop a comprehensive market entry strategy, considering local nuances and competitive landscape in partnership with Microsoft and GitHub sales teams.Lead end-to-end customer initiatives about Developer Productivity and modern software development practices such as DevOps, DevSecOps, AI-assisted Software Development, Cloud Development Environments, and Platform Engineering.Identify, create, and close pipeline by aligning to customer priorities, delivering competitive positioning, and effectively leveraging Microsoft's ecosystem of resources, partners, programs, and tools.Maintain a healthy and verifiable pipeline and execute on each MCEM phase to consistently achieve sales goals.Proactively deliver envisioning workshops, strategy briefings, solution demonstrations, and whiteboarding to gain customer commitment.Influence Microsoft's and GitHub's go-to-market and product strategies and roadmaps by documenting and sharing insights to sales, marketing, and engineering stakeholders on current and future product requirements, sales blockers, and customer feedback.Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications Account Management
