Director Business Development

Director, Business Development

The Data & AI Business Development team is responsible for strategic partnerships, opportunity identification, and growth initiatives across Microsofts Data & AI portfolio.

We are seeking a Director, Business Development to join the team driving AI partnerships and strategic initiatives, focused on commercial growth of Azure AI across AI Natives and Digital Natives Companies.

In this role, you will :

• Define and author commercial and ecosystem strategies in close collaboration with product and marketing teams including creative partnership constructs, business models, and GTM strategies
• Expand the reach and relevance of the Microsoft AI platform, through meaningful engagements with leading partners and customers
• Be knowledgeable on the AI space : follow the latest emerging AI news, develop technical / platform depth and have a systematic approach to identifying and executing against market trends
• Demonstrate and live our values and principles of teamwork, curiosity, self-awareness, integrity, diversity and allyship

This work helps to develop partner strategies that enable commercial acceleration of our AI Platform.