Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment 2026: Solution Area Specialist – AI Workforce & Solution Area Specialist – Security, Etc. Jobs
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.
At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Solution Area Specialist – AI Workforce
Job No: 200044124
Location: Nigeria
Job Overview
- Are you inspired to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence?
- We are seeking individuals to help guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences.
- Join us in integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, to help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.
- As a Solution Area Specialist – AI Workforce, you will lead the charge in driving AI transformation across enterprise customers by positioning Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions—including Copilot, Copilot Studio, Viva, and Cloud PC/Virtualization offerings—as strategic enablers of productivity and innovation.
- You will engage business decision makers through consultative selling, develop compelling business cases, and orchestrate cross-functional teams to accelerate adoption and value realization.
- This role empowers you to shape customer intent, build pipeline, and deliver measurable impact while deepening your expertise in AI sales motions and contributing to a high-performance, learning-driven culture.
Responsibilities
- Drive AI transformation deals by conducting consultative selling conversations with business decision makers (BDMs), showcasing the value of Copilot, Copilot Studio, Viva, and Agents at Work.
- Lead partnerships and collaborations across teams to guide the development and implementation of AI- and cloud-driven transformations for existing and new customers, showcasing Microsoft’s differentiated offerings.
- Leverage AI-driven market intelligence to identify business opportunities and inform proactive sales strategies that align with evolving market trends.
- Assess and qualify complex sales opportunities, driving strategy development and closing high-value deals in alignment with AI-enhanced sales methodologies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, aligning customers’ AI transformation vision with their business priorities and integrating security principles into every engagement.
- Drive partner organization connections and foster lasting relationships that accelerate customer value realization at scale.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications:
- 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.
- 8+ years solution or services sales experience.
Application Closing Date
18th August, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Solution Area Specialist – Security
Job ID: 200045746
Location: Nigeria
Travel: Less than 25%
Overview
- The Security Specialist is a senior, customer-facing business leader responsible for driving cybersecurity transformation across enterprise and public sector organisations.
- You will lead strategic customer engagements, shaping security outcomes aligned to business risk, AI transformation, and regulatory requirements – while owning the end-to-end sales lifecycle and orchestrating a virtual team across sales, technical, and partner resources.
- This role combines consultative selling, technical credibility, and business leadership to accelerate adoption of the Microsoft Security platform and deliver measurable customer impact.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other senior business and technology leaders, helping them address complex security challenges and achieve their transformation goals.
- Lead strategic customer engagements across the Microsoft Security portfolio, positioning security as a driver of business resilience, innovation and growth.
- Develop, manage and close a healthy pipeline of opportunities, driving revenue growth, new customer acquisition and expansion within existing accounts.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, translating customer security, compliance and risk requirements into business-focused solutions and long-term strategies.
- Lead virtual teams of sales, technical and partner resources to deliver successful customer outcomes and accelerate deal execution.
- Align Microsoft Security solutions to customer priorities, including cloud modernization, data protection, regulatory compliance, security operations and AI transformation.
- Build executive-level relationships and influence decision-making across customer organizations.
- Stay ahead of cybersecurity trends, emerging threats and market developments to provide strategic guidance and thought leadership.
- Collaborate closely with partners and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, remove barriers and maximize customer success.
- Drive customer adoption and value realization through ongoing engagement, ensuring customers achieve measurable outcomes from their Microsoft investments.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
- 8+ years of solution sales or pre-sales experience in cloud technologies, with a focus on Cybersecurity, Compliance, Governance and Risk.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience selling or supporting enterprise security solutions, including familiarity with leading security platforms and technologies.
- Experience working in environments involving multiple security vendors and competing security platforms.
- Strong understanding of modern security operations, threat protection, identity, compliance and cloud security concepts.
- Proven ability to engage and influence senior business and technical decision-makers.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment 2026: Solution Area Specialist – AI Workforce & Solution Area Specialist – Security, Etc. Jobs
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