Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead. **_This is a twelve-week, full-time internship. The selected candidates are expected to onboard in May 2025._** As a Technology Specialist Intern, you will engage with and guide customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. Leverage sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. Understand customer needs, collect customer feedback, and provide strategic input to customers. This opportunity will allow you to demonstrate Microsoft solutions to prove capabilities, apply architectures to client scenarios, and engage in partner sell-with scenarios to leverage partner ecosystem. You will act as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations 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** + You will engage with and reaches out to customers, receiving coaching and guidance from others and shadow others in customer stakeholder interactions and conducts research to gain a better understanding of customer context. + You will contribute to technical wins or specific portions of technical wins by preparing and delivering one-way presentations, with support from peers. + You will begin to develop awareness of available resources by engaging with the community and seeking product knowledge from others. + You will also build awareness of partners and the need for compete strategies and product strategy based on customer feedback. + You will deliver Microsoft standard messaging and strives to tailor messaging to the audience and assist in the preparation and execution of demonstrations for specific Microsoft products. + You will start with a learning path, consume readiness material, and expand your domain knowledge while connecting with customers. Promotes readiness to internal teams and actively participates in tech community sessions, hackathons, and similar events. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** + 6+ months technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience + OR Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field **Preferred Qualifications** + 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience + OR equivalent experience Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .