Technology Specialists: Internship Opportunities

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.

**The Technology Specialist** engages with and guides customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. Leverages sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. Understands customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers. Acts 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.

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**:
**Location: Riyadh**

**Program start date: January 2025**

**About**:Ru’aa Program** is Microsoft's program tailored for **Saudi Nationals**, aiming to accelerate Saudi employability and create market impact through early in career recruitment, and skilling programs.

**Program overview**:Microsoft Ru’aa Internship is a paid nine-month training program that offers globally recognized technical and professional certifications & skills, and on-the-job training to include mentoring, coaching, job shadowing and real-life scenario assignments.

**Program Details: The 9 months, full-time** program is divided into two key phases (Phase 1 - Onboarding & Skilling, Phase 2 - On The Job Training)

**Phase one**: _Onboarding & Skilling Bootcamp (1 month)_
- Onboarding and introduction to Microsoft’s mission, culture, strategy & structure.
- Technical skilling to obtain globally recognized Microsoft technical certifications.
- Professional and soft skilling courses including project management, change management, effective interpersonal skills, creativity and innovation, and time management.

**Phase two**: _On-the-job training (8 months)_
- Joining as a Solution **Specialist Intern** for on-the-job shadowing and training.
- Mentorship and coaching sessions.
- Supporting Microsoft teams in digital transformation projects.
- Advanced technology trainings including AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Computing.
- 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.
- 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**:
**Minimum Qulifications**
- Currently pursuing complete a Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science,Engineering, Business Administration,Business, or related field (OR must be recent graduates or recently graduated).
- Saudi nationality.
- Legally authorized to work in Saudi Arabia (Legally authorized = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit).
- Fluency in English.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Passion for technology and customer obsessed.
- Displays stakeholder and relationship management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
- Technical Certification (e.g., cloud technology
- Azure, Security, Data, AI) are preferred but not required.