AI Business Leader - SMB Asia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
+ 4 more locations
Date posted
Jul 17, 2025
Job number
1830408
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Sales
Discipline
SMB Sales
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
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.
The Small and Medium Business (SMB) segment within SME&C is at the leading edge of growth and transformation. It’s a tremendous growth engine for the company dedicated to bringing the Microsoft cloud to millions of SMB customers worldwide through scalable routes to market, growing revenue, market share and net new customers while enabling a high level of customer and partner experience.
This role can be based out of multiple locations in Asia.
Qualifications
Minimum required qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations
- OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 5+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations
- OR equivalent experience
- 7+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience
Responsibilities
As a SMB Business Leader, you will be accountable to the AI Business Solution business goals of Microsoft’s SMB business and be the SMB customer advocate across the organization. This requires continuous innovation and evolution of the sales execution strategy, while remaining centered on the customer. To be successful, you must have a deep understanding of the local market, customer acquisition and growth engines across core Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Copilot products and the respective routes to market. You will drive SMB AI Business Solution strategy alignment across all sales engines through the development of a holistic sales target attainment plan and ensure continuous execution with the right level of investments to address customer needs and accelerate their digital transformation.
This opportunity will allow you to develop deep stakeholder management, business strategy acumen, and sales leadership skills, as you will lead an AI Business Solution sales organization and work with key business partners from the partner, products and services, marketing, finance, and operations to ensure teams are working together to achieve AI Business Solution targets across sales engines.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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.