Account Executive – Microsoft Azure

About Comprinno

About the Role

Role Charter

Acquire new Azure customers and maximize the strategic value of every new customer relationship.

Key Responsibilities

1. Azure Business Development

• Build and execute a territory and account strategy for Comprinno's Azure business.
• Identify new-logo opportunities across target customer segments.
• Develop opportunities through:
  • Direct prospecting
  • Marketing-generated leads
  • Microsoft referrals and co-sell
  • Partner ecosystem
  • Events and industry networks
  • Existing executive relationships
• Build a healthy pipeline capable of consistently achieving revenue targets.
• Identify organizations undergoing cloud adoption, migration, modernization, Data/AI transformation, or infrastructure optimization.
• Develop multi-threaded relationships within target accounts.

2. Consultative Enterprise Selling

• Business objectives
• Existing technology landscape
• Cloud strategy
• Application portfolio
• Infrastructure challenges
• Security requirements
• Data & AI priorities
• Cost challenges
• Availability and resilience requirements
• Modernization roadmap

3. Azure Solution Sales

• Azure Cloud Migration
• Application Modernization
• Database Modernization
• Cloud-Native Engineering
• DevOps & Platform Engineering
• Kubernetes & Containerization
• Azure Managed Services
• Cloud Security & Compliance
• FinOps / Cost Optimization
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Data Engineering & Analytics
• AI / Generative AI
• Agentic AI
• Cloud Consulting & Assessments

4. Microsoft Co-Sell & Ecosystem Engagement

• Build strong working relationships with relevant Microsoft field sellers, partner teams, solution specialists, and account teams.
• Identify joint account opportunities and participate in account mapping.
• Develop Microsoft-sourced and Microsoft-influenced pipeline.
• Work closely with Comprinno's Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem team on joint GTM initiatives.
• Leverage appropriate Microsoft partner programs, marketplace opportunities, incentives, and funding mechanisms.
• Participate in joint customer meetings, workshops, events, and campaigns.
• Maintain disciplined follow-up on partner-generated opportunities.

5. Opportunity Qualification

• Customer problem
• Business impact
• Technical need
• Decision criteria
• Budget/commercial viability
• Decision-making stakeholders
• Competition
• Procurement process
• Expected timeline
• Next actions

6. Opportunity Shaping & Solution Development

• Bring Presales and Engineering teams into qualified opportunities at the appropriate stage.
• Coordinate customer discovery workshops.
• Ensure technical teams clearly understand customer objectives and commercial context.
• Help shape solutions around business outcomes rather than technology alone.
• Coordinate assessments, workshops, POCs, proposals, and solution presentations.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with customer expectations, commercial realities, and Comprinno's delivery capabilities.

7. Commercial Ownership & Closure

• Develop proposals and commercial strategy.
• Coordinate pricing with internal stakeholders.
• Lead commercial negotiations.
• Navigate customer procurement processes.
• Coordinate SOWs, contracts, NDAs, and commercial approvals.
• Maintain momentum across complex buying cycles.
• Identify and resolve barriers to closure.
• Ensure opportunities have clear next actions and owners.

8. Pipeline & Forecast Management

• Maintain accurate opportunity information in HubSpot.
• Build sufficient pipeline coverage against quota.
• Maintain realistic close dates and opportunity stages.
• Conduct regular pipeline reviews.
• Forecast revenue accurately.
• Identify stalled opportunities and develop recovery strategies.
• Maintain clear next steps for every active opportunity.
• Ensure HubSpot remains the single source of truth for sales activity.

9. Land-and-Expand Strategy

10. Sales-to-Customer-Success Handover

• Ensure structured handover after customer acquisition.
• Transfer customer context, stakeholders, commitments, commercial terms, risks, and identified future opportunities.
• Introduce the Account Manager – Customer Success as the long-term commercial relationship owner.
• Remain engaged during the transition where executive or relationship continuity is required.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, Business, Management, or related discipline.
• 5–8 years of B2B technology sales experience, preferably in Cloud, IT Services, Digital Transformation, SaaS, Infrastructure, Data, or Security.
• Demonstrated experience acquiring new enterprise or mid-market customers.
• Experience carrying and achieving revenue or bookings targets.
• Experience managing complex B2B sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing and enterprise technology.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft technology ecosystem.
• Ability to engage credibly with CIO/CTO/VP/Director-level stakeholders.
• Strong discovery, qualification, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Experience coordinating Presales and technical teams during sales cycles.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive-engagement skills.
• Strong CRM and forecasting discipline.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and bias for execution.

Desired Qualifications & Skills

• Previous experience selling Azure consulting, migration, modernization, or managed services.
• Experience working for a Microsoft Partner, cloud consulting company, MSP, or systems integrator.
• Existing relationships within the Microsoft field organization are highly desirable.
• Experience with Microsoft co-sell and partner-led GTM.
• Exposure to Azure Marketplace and Microsoft partner programs.
• Experience selling Data, AI, Generative AI, Security, DevOps, or Managed Services.
• Understanding of cloud economics and FinOps.
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or other Microsoft certifications are advantageous.
• MBA or equivalent business qualification is advantageous but not mandatory.

What We're Looking For

• Is fundamentally a hunter and new-business builder.
• Can open doors rather than depending entirely on inbound leads.
• Understands consultative technology selling.
• Is technically curious without trying to become the Solution Architect.
• Can engage both technology and business stakeholders.
• Builds strong relationships with Microsoft sellers and converts those relationships into opportunities.
• Knows when to qualify aggressively and when to walk away.
• Maintains strong pipeline and CRM discipline.
• Is comfortable navigating ambiguity while we rapidly scale our Azure business.
• Takes ownership from the first conversation through signed contract.
• Thinks beyond the initial transaction toward long-term customer value.

Why Join Comprinno

• Play a foundational role in building and scaling Comprinno's Microsoft Azure business.
• Sell transformation rather than a narrow technology product.
• Work across Cloud, Modernization, Security, Data, AI, Managed Services, and Platform Engineering.
• Build relationships with Microsoft and enterprise technology leaders.
• Work closely with experienced Cloud, AI, Presales, and Engineering teams.
• Participate directly in building a new growth engine within an established cloud technology company.
• Grow with an organization expanding from a strong AWS foundation into a broader multi-cloud and AI transformation company.