Overview

Join our team where innovation meets meaningful purpose!

Are you passionate about harnessing the power of cloud and AI to drive transformation? Step into the role of Cloud & AI Specialist on Microsoft’s Public Sector team, and help Higher Education institutions reimagine how they teach, research, and innovate transforming experiences and shaping brighter futures for students. You’ll accelerate Azure adoption across Canada, collaborating with a passionate team of Solution Engineers and cross-functional experts. Together, you’ll design impactful, future-ready solutions that address complex challenges, and create lasting value for students, educators, and communities. 

As a Cloud & AI Specialist - Higher Education, you are both a business leader and a trusted technical advisor within Microsoft’s enterprise sales organization, working with our most important Public Sector Higher Education customers in Canada. You bring a unique blend of deep technical expertise and sharp business acumen to drive Azure adoption and AI transformation. In this role, you will advance customer engagements to achieve, and exceed, quarterly Azure consumption targets across Infrastructure, Data, and AI platforms in your assigned accounts. You have the executive presence to engage confidently with decision-makers, inspiring them to imagine new possibilities through the Microsoft Cloud.

You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services professionals to help customers turn vision into reality. From identifying high-impact projects to building compelling business cases and driving them to production, you will guide customers through their transformation journey. You will build and sustain strong relationships at the CxO level, influencing long-term strategic direction and acting as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders.

Your work will help customers evaluate cloud strategies, modernize applications and data, and adopt innovative AI solutions. You will anticipate and remove roadblocks to ensure smooth deployments, driving both customer satisfaction and measurable results.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We bring a growth mindset to our work, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to reach shared goals. We are guided by respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can succeed at work and beyond.