AI Business Solutions Sales Specialist
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The role combines technology-driven sales with customer engagement, offering good compensation and growth potential, with a focus on relationship building.
- Salary range: $133,000–$239,800/year
- Role involves interaction with high-level executives.
- Engagement in AI and automation solutions.
- Requires extensive sales and relationship-building experience.
Pros
- Competitive salary range ($133,000 - $239,800/year) in technology sales.
- Opportunity for hands-on engagement with leading AI products.
- Position involves collaboration with C-Suite, enhancing professional network.
Cons
- Requires extensive sales experience, which may limit applicant pool.
- Potential variability in commission and incentives.
- Job entails frequent travel for client meetings.
Who it's for
Senior Sales • Hybrid / office with some travel obligations
Good fit
- Experienced tech industry sales professionals.
- Individuals looking to drive customer success with AI.
- Sales experts comfortable with C-Suite interactions.
Not recommended for
- Newcomers to sales or those lacking relevant experience.
- Individuals resistant to travel for work.
- Candidates preferring stable, non-sales roles.
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AI Business Solutions Sales Specialist
New York City, New York, United States
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Overview
As a AI Business Solutions Sales Specialist focused on AI solutions including the Coplilot, CRM and ERP category including its base Power Platform, you will be a transformation leader within the sales organization. You will form strong relationships with C-Suite executives, IT leaders and Business Decision Makers from our top customers, help them achieve their goals by bringing business value insights and envisioning solutions that accelerate innovation. Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success in this new world of work.
In the AI Business Solutions team we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end AI thought leadership driving significant customer value and enabling transformational customer outcomes.
As a Solution Specialist you will build digital transformation strategies with customers, collaborating across different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable customers to drive transition to Digital transformation in a hybrid work environment. Regarding solution coverage, you will propose Business Application Solutions such as Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, as well as Agent Platform including Microsoft 365 copilot and Copilot Studio, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for our customers.
In addition to the above, this position will be responsible for handling Japanese companies. You will report to the Japan team and take on the role of Solution Specialist, approaching Japanese companies in this capacity.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience of sales activities with high quality and quantity from a customer obsession mindset.
- 3+ years experience Understanding and business experience with AI solution, CRM, ERP and similar business applications.
- 6+ years experience with selling SaaS, cloud-based solutions to large enterprise accounts and exceeding sales targets. (Even if not have SaaS experience, business application experience is preferable.) Developing demand and pipe by building BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.
- 3+ years experience Understanding low-code / no-code platform and RPA solutions.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
- Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience with solution or services sales experience.
- 2+ years experience Experience facing with Japanese customers and business practices will be even better
Solution Area Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $170,300 - $239,800 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November, 7th 2025.
Responsibilities
The following are the primary responsibilities of the Solution Area Specialists:
- Account Planning and CXO/BDM Engagement with CRM and ERP expertise.
- Develop and maintain customer account plans for all the accounts in your designated territory which includes white space analysis, current customer solution and technology footprint/landscape, customer pains, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
- Deliver quality account and quota retirement territory plans.
- Drive BDM/CXO connections/engagements with Business Value Insights and value proposition of CRM and ERP at scale.
- Build & maintain qualified pipeline coverage by translating BDM priorities to initiatives.
- Lead customer Envisioning in each opportunity, yielding output of customer agreed business challenges, prioritized with business value and v-team accountabilities.
- Deliver compelling board-level proposals with commercial options aligned to customer transformation plan.
- Create business outcome, industry thought leadership customer stories and references
- Leverage the Microsoft partner ecosystem to scale and complement solution selling
