About this role
Windows Specialist Manager — Microsoft
Job #200045550 | Sales | People Manager | Full-Time
What the role is: Lead a team of Windows Specialists responsible for helping major enterprise customers adopt, modernize, and defend their Windows endpoint strategy, particularly around Windows 11, security, endpoint management, and AI-enabled work.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage, coach, hire, and develop Windows Specialists.
- Drive Windows adoption, revenue growth, competitive wins, and customer outcomes.
- Lead strategic engagements with major customers and executives such as CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs.
- Coordinate account teams, engineering, marketing, OEMs, silicon partners, and other partners.
- Guide teams through customer discovery, solution development, proof-of-value, and executive presentations.
- Build a high-performing team culture and manage performance, talent development, and succession planning.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Engineering, Business, Information Security, or related field.
- 6+ years in enterprise technology, consultative selling, specialist sales, business leadership, or transformation roles.
- Preferred: 5+ years of people management experience.
- Strong executive-level customer engagement and leadership experience.
- Deep knowledge of Windows Enterprise, Intune, Configuration Manager, endpoint management, and workplace transformation.
- Strong business, technical, sales, and leadership skills.
Work setup:
- 3 days/week in-office listed, though the description says the role can be up to 100% remote.
- 25–50% travel, including customer-site visits.
- Full-time, individual contributor designation is contradicted by the listing's People Manager role type; the responsibilities clearly indicate this is a management position.
Bottom line: A senior Windows enterprise sales leadership role focused on managing specialists, major customer relationships, partner coordination, and driving Windows/AI adoption.