Job description
Join the Azure for Operators Voice Core team partnering with Microsoft Teams and operators globally to bring advanced real time communications and collaboration solutions to enterprises. We are on the leading edge of helping operators build their mission critical real time communications networks in Azure, and rapidly bringing innovative new solutions to their enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Identify new opportunities and obstacles for enterprises to adopt and leverage cloud UCaaS, particularly when it comes to integrating with existing and new calling and mobility solutions
Develop the business case for operators to evolve their enterprise calling portfolios with differentiated and innovative new services addressing this market
Generate compelling new product and feature concepts at the intersection of operator network, Azure platforms and cloud UCaaS
Develop and execute on partner strategies that complement and leverage Azure for Operators platforms to realise this value with operators
Execute on these by building partnerships with the ecosystem of cloud UCaaS accelerators and value-add enterprise communication vendors.
Your Impact:
Act as a primary source of direct enterprise, operator customer and partner Microsoft organisation input to Azure for Operators partner and product strategies
Design and implement partner engagement and certification programs, and work with internal Microsoft partner teams to implement these
Drive recruitment and onboarding of 10+ partners within the first year
Indirectly influence the adoption of operator enterprise calling services by 10Ms of users over the next 3 years
Customer engagement and relationship development for executive briefings, product evangelism, and requirements gathering
Qualifications
Experience working in the cloud UCaaS / enterprise communications / telecoms domain
Experience incubating and growing ISV and SI partner ecosystems preferred
Strong commercial experience and designing business cases and value propositions
High-level familiarity with enterprise communications architectures – e.g. SIP trunking, video collaboration, CPaaS, CX, cloud services
Driven to build something new, innovative, and disruptive – and to make a material impact to the future of enterprise communications
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent presentation skills to conference and senior executive level
Demonstrable track record of success
Excellent people skills, team mentality and instinct to collaborate
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