Specialist - Ru'aa Internship

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.     As a Specialist Intern, you will learn to identify sales opportunities under direct supervision, focusing on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyze customer data and predict potential sales opportunities. You will learn about whitespace analysis activities and how to identify business opportunities, solution area and trends that may impact sales plays, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. You will learn about solutions that facilitate AI- and cloud-driven transformations for customers within their solution area.   Specialist Interns learn about sales pipeline reviews to promote forecasting accuracy and meeting sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision  recruit, onboard, and manage relationships with Microsoft partners; differentiating the value of partnering with Microsoft versus competitors. You will align partners to strategic accounts and identify market opportunities through industry analysis and intelligence.  At Microsoft, interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. 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.

Start Date: January 2027   Location: Riyadh   About:   Ru’aa Program is Microsoft's program tailored for Saudi Nationals , aiming to accelerate Saudi employability and create market impact through Early-in-Profession recruitment, and skilling programs. Program overview:   Microsoft Ru’aa Internship is a paid six-month training program that offers globally recognized technical and professional certifications & skills, and on-the-job training to include mentoring, coaching, job shadowing and real-life scenario assignments. Program Details: The 6 months, full-time   program is divided into two key phases (Phase 1 - Onboarding & Skilling, Phase 2 - On The Job Training) Phase one :  Onboarding & Skilling Bootcamp (1 month) Onboarding and introduction to Microsoft’s mission, culture, strategy & structure. Technical skilling to obtain globally recognized Microsoft technical certifications. Professional and soft skilling courses including project management, change management, effective interpersonal skills, creativity and innovation, and time management. Phase two:   On-the-job training (5 months) Joining as a Specialist Intern  for on-the-job shadowing and training. Mentorship and coaching sessions. Supporting Microsoft teams in digital transformation projects. Advanced technology trainings including AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Computing.

Learns about the customer’s security priorities and how to apply sales strategies, that showcase Microsoft's dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights. Learns to navigate and activate partner teams, resources and relationships, driving co-selling strategies and partner attach to each opportunity early in the sales lifecycle. Participates in connection to the partner organization (i.e. GPS) to drive share, partner