[Hiring] Senior Commercial Executive @Microsoft

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Commercial Executive (Individual Contributor) to lead commercial strategy and execution for highly complex, strategic Defense Industrial Base customers. This role is designed for a senior commercial leader who independently owns some of the most sophisticated deals, negotiations, and risk profiles within the DIB portfolio.

As a Senior Commercial Executive, you will have the opportunity to operate with significant autonomy, shape deal strategy across multi-year, multi-affiliate agreements, and influence outcomes across sales, finance, legal, and policy teams. You will be accountable not only for deal execution, but also for commercial judgment, risk management, and long-term customer value creation in a regulated, mission-critical environment. This is a non-people-manager (IC) role with enterprise-level scope and impact.

Responsibilities

• Senior Commercial Leadership & Strategy
  • Own and lead the commercial strategy for highly complex and high-impact DIB accounts, often involving large deal sizes, long sales cycles, and elevated risk.
  • Shape multi-year, multi-affiliate, and non-standard deal constructs, balancing growth, margin, compliance, and customer outcomes.
  • Serve as the senior commercial authority on assigned accounts guiding strategy well before formal negotiations begin.
• Advanced Negotiation & Risk Ownership
  • Lead executive-level negotiations with customer procurement, legal, and business leaders.
  • Independently assess and manage financial, contractual, and compliance risk, escalating only when appropriate and with well-formed recommendations.
  • Exercise strong commercial judgment on pricing, investments, concessions, and non-standard terms to protect Microsoft’s long-term interests.
• Defense Industrial Base Expertise
  • Apply deep understanding of DIB customer environments, including regulatory sensitivity, government adjacency, and security-driven workload considerations.
  • Advise account teams on appropriate commercial approaches across commercial and government cloud environments, aligned to customer mission needs.
  • Navigate complex customer structures (subsidiaries, global entities, joint ventures) common in the defense ecosystem.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Leadership
  • Influence senior stakeholders across Sales, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, and Policy without formal authority.
  • Act as a commercial thought leader and mentor to peers and account teams, raising the overall commercial bar within the DIB OU.
  • Resolve ambiguity and unblock deals by driving alignment across competing priorities.
• Operational Excellence & Predictability
  • Maintain rigorous forecast accuracy, pipeline discipline, and deal hygiene for high-stakes opportunities.
  • Ensure all agreements are audit-ready, compliant, and executed with precision.
  • Capture and apply insights from complex deals to improve future commercial strategy and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 8+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
• OR 12+ years sales and negotiation experience
• OR equivalent experience.

Requirements

• This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
• This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under U.S. export control regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 10+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 12+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
• OR 15+ years sales and negotiation experience
• Familiarity with Microsoft cloud offerings, including Azure and Microsoft 365 (commercial and/or government), MACC experience highly preferred.
• Background in enterprise sales, finance, legal, or commercial operations within regulated industries.
• Experience structuring and closing large, multi-year strategic agreements.
• Effective collaborator who enjoys working with a wide range of personality styles and across various teams and functions.
• Extensive experience leading complex enterprise deal making and negotiations.
• Demonstrated success operating independently in high ambiguity and high-risk environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance.

Compensation

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 per year.
• There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $170,300 - $239,800 per year.

Application Process

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.