Overview
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At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), specializing in AI solutions, who is passionate about driving our customers’ AI transformation journey with Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot, able to work and influence CXOs. This is a customer-facing role that serves as a strategic trusted advisor and technical subject matter expert, accelerating AI adoption and change management by creating business value and ROI. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Responsibilities
Be a trusted advisor and drive business value through AI Transformation: Create business value by translating customer challenges into actionable solutions aligned to high ROI customer outcomes. Ensure a seamless, connected experience that fosters satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term value.
Drive Customer Success: Lead architectural design, engaging with business and technical decision makers to drive intent and enable sustained usage of Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot, securing long-term customer success and renewal.
Leverage Agentic AI: Use Copilot prompt engineering and Agent-building expertise to drive AI at scale.
Explore growth opportunities: Partner with technical and sales teams to identify opportunities and develop tailored solutions to drive expansion and business value realization.
Accelerate Customer AI Transformation Journey: Engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-use, and learn from others to help accelerate your customer’s AI transformation journey.
Embrace a growth mindset: Act as the voice of the customer by proactively sharing insights, feedback, and success stories to inform internal strategy and execution.
Learn-it-all: Demonstrate a self-learner mindset through continuous, self-directed learning in areas such as Copilot Chat, Agents, M365 Copilot, business value realization, and adoption and change management. Build and maintain technical readiness aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU) priorities and corporate initiatives.
Additional Information On Responsibilities As CSA Copilot
Be the focal point of contact between Microsoft and customer/partner in driving M365 Copilot adoption, drive end-user adoption of Copilot (per BU).
Deliver Microsoft services for Copilot through Unified support contract
Demonstrate Copilot M365 insights to showcase trends and business impact
Advisory on Adoption and Change Management Plan (identify exec sponsorship, end-user targeting, content and activities)
Enable and demonstrate M365 Copilot insights and dashboard to understand usage trends and business impact
Training sessions, use-cases and support specific for CxO
Extensibility Scenarios: envisioning, design session and scoping for pilot, PoC or handover for implementation.
Feedback loop to Microsoft Product Group and Marketing team
Support unblocking technical issues : work with product group, provide feedback and product insights
Support Customer Success Club and MW events by delivering sessions and acting as a subject matter expert
Qualifications
Passion for new innovative technology and drive customer transformation
Strong project management skills
Ability to work with different cultures and customers
Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences especially CxOs and strong presentation skills.
Demonstrate effective balance between business with excellent adoption and change management skills and technical acumen on Copilot and agents.
Ability to lead and motivate technical communities and be public speaker
Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change and in constant learning mode.
Qualifications
Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Fluent in English, French and/or German, Dutch, any third language is appreciated
No relocation is possible
Experience
Relevant experience working in a customer-facing and working with Customer success teams
Relevant experience in systems development, network operations, software support, IT consulting
Proven track record in successfully planning, deploying, operating, and optimizing M365 solutions.
Analytical Problem Solving
Proven track record of building relationships with senior IT and business decision makers
Ability to explain complex topics in ways that can be understood by technical and business decision makers.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skill and fluency in French and English
Change Management, transformation, trusted advisory, and customer focus skills to influence on Consumption/Adoption M365 Customers
Journey Mapping Skills: Be the M365 Copilot subject matter expert with the ability to design customer solutions, lead presentations, demonstrations, and design thinking workshops with both BDMs and ITDMs
Relationship Building: Proven track record of building deep relationships with BDM & senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships, leading value proposition conversations to get consensus on solution/projects.
Technical Skills
Large scale Microsoft 365
M365 Security and compliance
Copilot for M365, Copilot chat
Agents creation and governance (min through M365, Copilot Studio)
Copilot Studio
M365 Apps (esp Teams, VIVA)
Teams deployment
SharePoint Online & Search indexing
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Microsoft 365 Certified, AI, ...)
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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