Security Specialist Technical Skilling Strategy Lead

Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) - Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. The Customer & Commercial Success (CCS) organization, an organization within MCAPS-Core, is the connected engine that turns Microsoft’s commercial strategy into execution at scale — making it simpler and faster for the field to win for every customer, in every segment, region, and role. The organization brings together planning, landing, execution excellence, services portfolio and delivery, and field activation across Account Team Unit (ATU), Solution Team Unit (STU), and Customer Success Unit (CSU) to accelerate customer value, drive growth, and strengthen the end-to-end experience across every customer moment. Security has never been more critical to organizations worldwide. As customers accelerate AI adoption while navigating an increasingly complex threat landscape, Microsoft Security is uniquely positioned to help organizations secure their future and realize value from Microsoft’s security platform. The Microsoft Security Enablement & Partner Strategy organization is seeking a highly strategic, customer-obsessed, and technically credible leader to serve as the Security Specialist Technical Skilling Lead. In this role, you will define and continuously evolve the technical skilling strategy for Microsoft’s global Security Solutions Specialist community, ensuring our sales organization has the technical depth, solution fluency, and customer engagement capability required to accelerate customer transformation and business growth. You will work at the intersection of sales strategy, cybersecurity, AI, technical capability development, business performance, and field transformation. Leveraging customer insights, sales signals, field intelligence, market trends, and performance data, you will identify the technical knowledge, solution expertise, competitive fluency, and customer conversation capabilities required for Security Solutions Specialists to succeed. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, technical curiosity, executive influence, sales acumen, and passion for developing high-performing field organizations. You are energized by emerging technologies, motivated by customer impact, and excited by the opportunity to shape how Microsoft develops world-class Security sellers at global scale. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how Microsoft builds technical confidence, scales Security expertise, and accelerates AI and security transformation for customers around the world. Candidates who live within 50 miles of Microsoft's Redmond campus will be required to work in the office 3 days per week. 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 •    Leads enterprise risk strategy, analytics, and insight generation by establishing best practices for risk modeling, datasets, scoring methodologies, and AI-enabled analytics; transforming risk data into actionable insights that inform prioritization, resource allocation, mitigation strategies, and