Account Executive, Government

5 days ago

Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand Microsoft Full time NZ$80,000 - NZ$120,000 per year
Account Executive, Government - Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Date posted

Oct 16, 2025

Job number

1896638

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Sales

Discipline

Account Management

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Our love for innovation, technology and doing meaningful work, is at the heart of everything we do at Microsoft New Zealand. It is a shared passion that inspires our team and customers to think bigger.

Our mission is to support the Government agencies of New Zealand on their digital transformation journey's – helping them to deliver world-class, joined-up modern secure government services to all New Zealanders in line with the Government's digital services strategy. Our Public Sector customers stand at the cusp of a digital revolution that has the power to transform the way our government serves New Zealanders, and Microsoft has a key role to play in bringing this vision to life.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

  • 9+ years of building strategic business partnerships through selling or consulting with enterprise customers. Equally considered will be 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customer.
  • Experience developing and overseeing the execution of strategic territory and account plans.
  • An understanding of how to build a technical strategy and roadmap, gaining executive buy in and how to orchestrate a team to execute against that.
  • Knowledge of a range of technical solutions such as AI, cloud platforms, applications, security, and productivity tools.
  • Experience coaching or managing sales or technical team
  • Experience in leading/orchestrating diverse v-teams
Responsibilities

The Senior Account Executive at Microsoft leads our most valued customers into the digital age. Embracing a challenger mindset, the successful Account Executive manages, orchestrates, and leads their virtual teams and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes.

  • The Senior Account Executive sets the strategy, drives action and progress towards strategic objectives and value realization, by solving for the customers business outcomes with multi-year goals.
  • They bring innovation and ideas, creating new initiatives for business value through technology capability towards digital transformation.
  • They own the trusted CXO level relationships and deep networks in business and are the visionary that takes their customers leaders on a journey using industry and business acumen to make those dreams of today, tangible business outcomes of tomorrow.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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