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 Technology Specialist Intern, you will engage with and guide customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. You will leverage sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. You will understand customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers. You will act as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations.

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.

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Responsibilities

Start Date: February 2025

Duration: 20 hours per week

Location: Germany, Multiple Locations

Type of Employment: Student Worker

• Develops understanding of current customer context and anticipates next steps. Uses product expertise to build credibility with customers.

• Reviews customer interactions and raises competitive information to account teams to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.

• Contributes to product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback.

• Tailors Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products.

• Contributes to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements and coaching from senior colleagues. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment.

• Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's , Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

• You must be legally authorised to work in Germany to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)

• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in German.

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