Solution Area Specialists: Internship Opportunities

*Overview*
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University graduates from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

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
Program Start Date: March 2026
Length: 6 months, Full Time Internship*
Solution engineer 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. Demonstrates Microsoft solutions to prove capabilities, applies architectures to client scenarios, and engages in partner sell-with scenarios to leverage partner ecosystem. Acts as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations.

*Responsibilities:*
Engages with and reaches out to customers with coaching from others.Assists in demonstrations of specific Microsoft products through preparation and execution. Leverages senior colleagues to ensure quality.Shadows others in customer stakeholder interactions and researches customer context to gain understanding and build product expertise.Contributes to technical wins or portions of technical wins with support from peers through preparation and delivery of one-way presentations. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.Begins to develop awareness of available resources by familiarizing themselves with the community and engaging others to gain product knowledge.

*Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:*

• Currently pursuing or have completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field.Passion for technology and working with customers.
• Strong balance of both business and technical skills.
• Technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience is a plus.
• Full Work-Authorization in Italy.

*Preferred Qualifications*

• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills .
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills .
• Technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience is a plus.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
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