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# Manufacturing & Mobility CTO

- **Company:** Microsoft
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $155,800.0 - $277,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/0FA66224658747EABCDD7FA1D9134DDA/job/

## About the Role

* Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience.
 * 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance., * Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across technical, product, field, partner, customer, and engineering organizations.
 * Advance Knowledge in Manufacturing and Mobility industries, with strong understanding of industry challenges, technology trends, and business outcomes.
 * Proven ability to build executive-level relationships and influence senior business and technical stakeholders, including C-suite engagements.
 * Experience with cloud platforms, AI, data platforms, application modernization, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation initiatives.
 * Ability to translate complex customer challenges into scalable, repeatable solutions, technical strategies, and industry-focused innovation opportunities.
 * Experience developing reusable technical assets, reference architectures, implementation frameworks, and solution patterns that drive adoption and business impact.

Business Strategy IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $155,800 - $277,200 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 $202,400 - $303,600 per year.

## Description

As a Manufacturing & Mobility CTO, you will turn technical ambiguity into repeatable advantage.

You will operate at the intersection of customer demand, industry expertise, Engineering innovation, and AI transformation. Working across Industry Advisors, FDE Studios, Engineering teams, and Solution Sales Enablement, you will identify the technical patterns, architectures, and opportunities that can scale across industries and customers.

You will help Microsoft learn faster from every engagement by transforming customer signals, implementation insights, and emerging technology trends into reusable assets, engineering feedback, technical points of view, and scalable solution patterns.

This opportunity will allow you to:

Shape future industry and Engineering direction through direct influence on product roadmaps and strategic innovation priorities.

Develop deep expertise in Frontier Transformation, AI-powered business models, and industry-led technical strategy.

Build technical leadership across some of Microsoft's most strategic customers, industries, and Engineering organisations.

You will join a geographically distributed team with flexible working arrangements, combining remote collaboration with customer, industry, and team engagements.

Microsoft Culture

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realise 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

Responsibilities

Drive Technical Pattern Recognition Across Industries

Identify, validate, and scale repeatable technical patterns emerging from customer engagements, FDE projects, industry trends, and AI transformation initiatives. Distinguish between one-off customer requirements and opportunities that can be leveraged across an entire industry or solution domain.

Shape Microsoft's Future Through Engineering Influence

Create a closed feedback loop between Industry Advisors, FDE Studios, customers, and Engineering teams. Translate customer priorities, implementation learnings, and market signals into actionable feedback that improves roadmap relevance, platform capabilities, and future product investments.

Improve FDE Qualification and Prioritisation

Partner with Industry Advisors, Engineering, and FDE Studios to improve opportunity qualification, prioritisation, and execution. Help ensure investments focus on opportunities that maximise customer value, technical feasibility, strategic relevance, and repeatability.

Accelerate Reuse Over Reinvention

Drive the creation and adoption of reusable architectures, technical assets, reference patterns, accelerators, implementation guidance, and agentic solution frameworks that enable teams to move faster and increase customer impact.

Build Technical Capability Across Frontier Industry Advisory

Strengthen technical confidence and capability across FIA by coaching Industry Advisors, improving technical qualification practices, and helping teams engage customers with greater credibility in AI transformation, architecture discussions, and Frontier opportunities.

Anticipate Emerging Technology and Industry Disruption

Proactively evaluate emerging technologies, industry shifts, and transformation opportunities. Develop forward-looking points of view that help Microsoft, our customers, and our field organisations prepare for the next wave of industry innovation.

Connect Customer Successes Into Industry-Scale Advantage

Transform successful customer engagements into repeatable industry assets, best practices, and scalable plays that increase adoption, improve execution quality, and accelerate industry-wide impact.


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