Partner Technology Strategist

**Partner Technology Strategist**:
Paris, France

Date posted

**Oct 23, 2025**
- Job number

**1895196**
- Work site

**2 days / week in-office**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Technology Sales**
- Discipline

**Partner Technology Strategy**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- Join our team as a Partner Technology Strategist and play a pivotal role in guiding partners towards a profitable and successful digital transformation journey with Microsoft. By leveraging your strategic mindset, technical expertise, and persuasive communication skills, you will drive our partners' success and unlock new possibilities in the ever-evolving world of technology. As the Partner Technology Strategist, you will guide your partners' technology strategies, encouraging the creation of innovative business solutions to meet customer needs. Your responsibilities as the Partner Technology Strategist will include influencing the partner’s cloud strategy, leading cloud transformation, fostering innovation, building relationships, and providing technical guidance as a trusted advisor. By doing so, you will empower our partners to deliver exceptional ROI (return on investment) to their customers while driving business growth and innovation.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience in technology IP solutions or services development, with a deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, and emerging cloud trends like generative AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) and SaaS (Software as a Service) services. Strong background and in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies, with a focus on Microsoft's cloud offerings (Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365). Experience in cloud architecture, migration, and optimization is highly desirable

**Responsibilities**:

- As a Partner Technology Strategist (PTS), you will serve as the technical owner of your partners’ business solutions (ISV/SDC). You’ll work closely with stakeholders to align their technology roadmap with Microsoft’s cloud offerings - understanding their business objectives, offering strategic guidance, and helping them unlock the full potential of the Microsoft cloud.
- You’ll contribute to fostering a culture of innovation by inspiring partners to adopt a tech-intensity mindset. Staying ahead of emerging cloud technologies, industry trends, and best practices, you’ll provide thought leadership, encourage and guide partners on how to differentiate and drive transformative change.
- You’ll build trusted relationships with your partner’s C-suite, CTOs, executives, and technical teams. By fostering collaboration, trust, and open communication, you’ll ensure strategic alignment and long-term partnership success.
- Your leadership capabilities will help you drive business growth, foster innovation, and navigate complex organizational landscapes. You’ll be required to collaborate effectively, resolve conflicts, and ensure follow-through on strategic initiatives.
- You’ll be taking a strategic role - aligning technology solutions with business goals, contributing to the development of technology roadmaps, and supporting partners with actionable recommendations. A strong foundation in technical problem-solving, business acumen, and a passion for learning will help you succeed and evolve in this role.
- Your strategic thinking and deep understanding of business strategy will enable you to lead technology adoption, resolve technical blockers, and envision groundbreaking capabilities. You’ll be required to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Industry leading healthcare
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Educational resources
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Discounts on products and services
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Savings and investments
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Maternity and paternity leave
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Generous time away
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Giving programs
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Opportunities to network and connect