Microsoft Developer Evangelist Job Vacancies

Job Position: Developer Evangelist

• The Developer Evangelist is responsible for the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team whose overall mission is to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a vibrant solutions ecosystem.
• DPE focuses on promotion and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies, which leads to current and future revenue.

• Driving Broad Customer Connection across the Developer, Architect, Designer, Enthusiast, and IT Pro audiences through an integrated approach to evangelism, communities and intelligent audience marketing
• Marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools
• Engaging ISVs/VARs through depth and breadth technical evangelism activities and providing strategic leadership on ISVs/VARs across the subsidiary/district
• Driving highly visible design wins in enterprise accounts that lead to compelling evidence and customer references; this includes scaling design wins on the Microsoft platform enabling services partners to architect and win business-critical applications based on the Microsoft platform
• Selling developer tools to enterprise accounts, partners and through the channel
• Engaging students and faculty in universities and high schools in order to win mindshare of nascent developers
• Collaborating with the GM, BMO, Public Sector, and Citizenship to work with the government on improving their local software economy, leveraging the executive relationships we have and the investments the local office is making
• In summary, DPE is committed to broad platform adoption and a vibrant ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Through evangelism, marketing and sales, DPE helps secure the Microsoft platform, now and in the future.

• Overall ISV/VARs strategy and technical enablement Broad developer, designer and IT Pro community engagement and satisfaction
• Academic technical evangelism and curriculum adoption
• Adoption of Microsoft platform technologies and related market share
• Winning the enterprise development platform through architects, business decision-makers, and partners
• Broad technical enablement of the Microsoft partner community
• Be part of the Sub’s Citizenship cabinet and drive LSE initiatives
• Manage the Sub’s Academy initiatives and ensure the program successfully train candidates and ensure they get employment opportunities. This will be done in collaboration with our Partner community.
• Win Developers for Windows and IE
• Show developers how to build great applications that shine on Windows and connect to Web-based services. Windows must be a great developer experience for applications, whether they use native code, managed code, Silverlight, or standards-based HTML in IE. This priority is about winning against competitors who want to use the Web and their devices to make Windows less relevant.IE is critical in this battle, because we want to win the developers who develop against Web standards, and the consumers who use those sites. The DPE Lead ensures consumers have the best Web experience uniquely on Windows through IE.
• Build momentum by winning and marketing top consumer application on Windows and IE
• Unblock Windows 7 compatibility issues and energize IT Pros to deploy
• Drive IE9 and HTML5 perception through communities, influencers, and third parties
• Inspire and deepen our Compete Culture
• Drive adoption of Compete Resources including: Compete Handbooks, Compete Readiness Materials, CompHot, etc.
• Maintain and update the ESA Compete site, providing monthly competitive insights to BMO on ongoing compete activity and escalations on CompHot
• Establish Compete Learning Culture by sharing local competitive insights from monthly Win/Loss reviews, MI, and Acct. Discovery
• Provide monthly competitive insights to Segments, ESA leadership and CM

• 8 - 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.)
• MBA
• Master’s Degree
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