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Microsoft’s Industry Sales team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals. This team is responsible for providing a differentiated Customer experience for our customers, providing Industry insights and delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.
As a Frontier Industry Advisor for Retail & Consumer Goods in the Americas, you will partner with some of Microsoft's most strategic retail and consumer goods customers to help them navigate industry disruption, accelerate AI transformation and unlock new opportunities for growth. You will engage senior business and technology leaders to understand their priorities, shape strategic conversations and identify opportunities where Microsoft can deliver meaningful business value; leveraging deep industry expertise, you will originate and develop new opportunities, influence complex customer decisions and connect customer challenges to Microsoft's technology, partner ecosystem and industry solutions. Working closely with account teams, solution specialists and partners, you will help customers achieve transformational outcomes while contributing to Microsoft's commercial growth and long-term customer success. This opportunity will allow you to lead C-suite agendas, master the economics of agentic AI, and help shape a new Microsoft business. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.
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
- Leverage substantial retail and consumer goods industry expertise and market insight to help strategic customers accelerate AI transformation, identify new sources of business value, and create opportunities that drive customer and Microsoft growth, moving them from pilots to scale by redesigning workflows and data foundations with responsible AI and governance.
- Originate and develop industry-led opportunities across assigned customers, working outcomes-inward from the business result to the process, data and AI required, and connecting business challenges in merchandising, pricing, supply chain, stores, commerce and loyalty to Microsoft's AI, Copilot, Security and Cloud solutions through differentiated industry narratives and use cases.
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and senior business decision-makers to shape strategic agendas, influence investment priorities and accelerate demand generation across short- and long-term growth opportunities, up to board level, challenging their thinking; lead stakeholder mapping and multi-horizon roadmaps in the account plan, informed by customer research and ideation.
- Act as an industry thought leader, bringing external market perspectives, emerging trends and customer insights that help create scalable and repeatable solutions for customers and Microsoft, scaling the highest-impact AI scenarios.
- Partner closely with account teams, solution specialists and strategic partners, to orchestrate customer engagements, accelerate opportunity progression and deliver measurable business outcomes, and formalize programs with commercial, legal, compliance and engineering teams.
- Drive operational and commercial excellence through disciplined opportunity management, effective prioritisation and a relentless focus on customer impact and value creation: build the value case a CFO will accept, help close large multi-year deals, keep forecasting disciplined, and know when to withdraw.
- Act as the industry front door to Forward Deployed Engineering, originating and qualifying engagements where Microsoft engineers embed with customers to build production AI.
Other
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
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Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
-
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years proven people management and/or leadership experience.
- 5+ years proven people management and/or leadership and orchestration experience.
- Track record of shaping and closing large, multi-year transformation deals with C-suite stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of AI, data, cloud and security as applied to retail and consumer goods.
Industry Advisory IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $107,600 - $187,500 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 $145,600 - $205,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
Microsoft’s Industry Sales team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals. This team is responsible for providing a differentiated Customer experience for our customers, providing Industry insights and delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.
As a Frontier Industry Advisor for Retail & Consumer Goods in the Americas, you will partner with some of Microsoft's most strategic retail and consumer goods customers to help them navigate industry disruption, accelerate AI transformation and unlock new opportunities for growth. You will engage senior business and technology leaders to understand their priorities, shape strategic conversations and identify opportunities where Microsoft can deliver meaningful business value; leveraging deep industry expertise, you will originate and develop new opportunities, influence complex customer decisions and connect customer challenges to Microsoft's technology, partner ecosystem and industry solutions. Working closely with account teams, solution specialists and partners, you will help customers achieve transformational outcomes while contributing to Microsoft's commercial growth and long-term customer success. This opportunity will allow you to lead C-suite agendas, master the economics of agentic AI, and help shape a new Microsoft business. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.
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
- Leverage substantial retail and consumer goods industry expertise and market insight to help strategic customers accelerate AI transformation, identify new sources of business value, and create opportunities that drive customer and Microsoft growth, moving them from pilots to scale by redesigning workflows and data foundations with responsible AI and governance.
- Originate and develop industry-led opportunities across assigned customers, working outcomes-inward from the business result to the process, data and AI required, and connecting business challenges in merchandising, pricing, supply chain, stores, commerce and loyalty to Microsoft's AI, Copilot, Security and Cloud solutions through differentiated industry narratives and use cases.
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and senior business decision-makers to shape strategic agendas, influence investment priorities and accelerate demand generation across short- and long-term growth opportunities, up to board level, challenging their thinking; lead stakeholder mapping and multi-horizon roadmaps in the account plan, informed by customer research and ideation.
- Act as an industry thought leader, bringing external market perspectives, emerging trends and customer insights that help create scalable and repeatable solutions for customers and Microsoft, scaling the highest-impact AI scenarios.
- Partner closely with account teams, solution specialists and strategic partners, to orchestrate customer engagements, accelerate opportunity progression and deliver measurable business outcomes, and formalize programs with commercial, legal, compliance and engineering teams.
- Drive operational and commercial excellence through disciplined opportunity management, effective prioritisation and a relentless focus on customer impact and value creation: build the value case a CFO will accept, help close large multi-year deals, keep forecasting disciplined, and know when to withdraw.
- Act as the industry front door to Forward Deployed Engineering, originating and qualifying engagements where Microsoft engineers embed with customers to build production AI.
Other
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
-
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
-
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years proven people management and/or leadership experience.
- 5+ years proven people management and/or leadership and orchestration experience.
- Track record of shaping and closing large, multi-year transformation deals with C-suite stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of AI, data, cloud and security as applied to retail and consumer goods.
Industry Advisory IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $107,600 - $187,500 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 $145,600 - $205,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
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Who's Hiring
- Wealthbridge Financial17
- Abco Maintenance10
- Accenture4
- Logic4
- Klaviyo1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in industry advisor jobs.
- Five or more years of experience in a specific industry vertical such as healthcare, finance, or technology
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex sector trends into actionable strategic recommendations
- Strong stakeholder communication skills across executive, technical, and policy audiences
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, public policy, or a related field
- Experience producing market analyses, white papers, or advisory briefings for senior leadership
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks, compliance standards, or industry-specific certifications relevant to the sector
Tips for Your Industry Advisor Job Search
Tailor your resume to sector depth
Industry advisors are hired for domain expertise, so your resume needs to show which sectors you know deeply, not just broadly. Name specific industries, regulatory environments, or market segments you've advised on so hiring teams can place you immediately.
Highlight cross-functional advisory outcomes
Employers want advisors who influence decisions, not just deliver reports. For each role you list, describe the stakeholder level you advised and what changed as a result, whether a product pivot, a policy shift, or a go-to-market adjustment.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists industry advisor openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by advisory scope
Industry advisor roles vary widely from regulatory liaison to market entry strategist. When searching job boards, use secondary terms like 'sector specialist', 'market advisor', or 'industry strategist' to surface roles that match your actual scope of work.
Prepare a case study for the interview
Most industry advisor interviews include a scenario or case component where you're asked to analyze a sector trend or recommend a course of action. Prepare one real example from your background where your advisory input shaped a concrete business or policy outcome.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Industry advisor roles often differ in how much autonomy and client access you actually get. Before discussing compensation, clarify whether you'll own relationships or support them, because that distinction affects both your day-to-day role and your leverage for future advancement.
Industry Advisor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most industry advisors?
The most active employers for industry advisors right now are Wealthbridge Financial, Abco Maintenance, and Accenture, and the most openings are in Arizona, Kentucky, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially consistent at management consulting firms, government contractors, and large financial institutions.
How many industry advisor jobs are remote?
About 97% of industry advisor openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote work most common in roles focused on market research, policy analysis, and written advisory deliverables. Roles requiring regular client meetings or on-site stakeholder engagement tend to be in-person or hybrid.
How do you become an industry advisor?
Start by building deep expertise in a single sector through direct work experience, whether in a corporate, government, or nonprofit setting. Move into roles that require cross-functional communication, such as business development, strategy, or policy analysis, where you translate domain knowledge for non-specialist audiences. Accumulate examples of decisions you influenced, then position yourself for advisory roles by targeting organizations that need that specific sector expertise.
Can you get hired as an industry advisor with little experience?
Entry-level industry advisor roles do exist, particularly at consulting firms and think tanks that hire recent graduates with strong analytical backgrounds and clear sector focus. Your best path is to demonstrate domain knowledge through internships, published research, conference presentations, or project work in your target industry, since employers are hiring for expertise rather than years of service alone.
What does the industry advisor interview process look like?
Most industry advisor interviews begin with a screening conversation focused on your sector background and the types of organizations you've advised. This is followed by one or two rounds covering your analytical approach, stakeholder communication style, and past advisory work. Many employers include a case exercise or presentation where you assess a sector scenario and walk through your recommendations, often in front of a panel.
Where can I find and apply to industry advisor jobs?
You can find and apply to industry advisor jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search for roles that match your sector background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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