Technical Evangelist Job


Date: Feb 17, 2013
Location: Nairobi, KE
Job Category: Sales
Location: Nairobi, KE
Job ID: 822148-100957
Division: Sales


The DPE Lead is the leader of the area Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team whose overall mission is to secure platform and tools adoption. The team’s primary purpose is to ensure developers write applications for Windows 8, Windows Phone and the Azure platform through technical evangelism and technical audience marketing.
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DPE focuses on promotion and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies, which leads to current and future revenue. Responsibilities for DPE include:

Drive engagement to technical audiences through an integrated approach to evangelism, communities and intelligent audience marketing 
Marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools 
Engaging CSVs through depth and breadth technical evangelism activities and providing ownership Technical and business) and leadership on CSV’s across the region 
Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Windows, ensuring applications are written for Windows 8
Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Cloud Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Azure
Winning the depth and breadth developer community onto Microsoft Phone Platform, ensuring applications are written for Windows Phone
Driving paid and unpaid developer tools to enterprise accounts, partners and through the channel 
Engaging students and faculty in universities and high schools in order to win mindshare of nascent developers 
Engaging with the IT Professionals on private cloud

In summary, DPE is committed to broad platform adoption and a vibrant ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Through evangelism, marketing and sales, DPE helps secure the Microsoft platform, now and in the future.

The DPE Lead leads and is accountable for DPE strategy execution and goal fulfillment in the Regions and its districts where applicable. 

The role entails a mix of business management and people management. It also requires technical acumen, communication skills and a great ability to make strategy happen, cross teams and subsidiaries. Leadership of groups that do not report straight line to the Area DPE Leader is a critical.

Business Responsibilities include: 
Winning the developer adoption of cloud, phone and the client platforms with a focus on consumer applications and services
Overall CSV strategy and technical enablement 
Broad developer and IT Pro community engagement and satisfaction 
Broad technical enablement of the Microsoft partner community 
Academic technical evangelism and curriculum adoption 
Tools revenue goals reached

People responsibilities include:
Inspire senior leaders
Lead change
Recruit, retain, develop and export talent
Build a great succession plan

To apply click here 

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