Americas - Frontier Industry Advisor - Insurance

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Overview Americas – Frontier Industry Advisor – Insurance Are you passionate about insurance industry transformation for the AI era? Insurance is undergoing a fundamental shift in how carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and benefits providers grow, operate, manage risk, and serve customers. Insurers are moving away from experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation, reshaping underwriting, claims, distribution, policyholder engagement, risk modeling, fraud detection, compliance, and employee productivity. By applying trustworthy, secure, scalable AI, Microsoft is helping insurers reimagine their businesses from outcomes inward, using breakthrough technologies to simplify operations, improve decision quality, deepen customer trust, and unlock new sources of growth. Microsoft’s Frontier Industry Advisory team is at the heart of that innovation, working directly with insurance business leaders to rewrite the playbook in light of disruption while living to the mission and business objectives of their industry. As a Frontier Industry Advisor on the Americas Frontier Insurance Industry team, you will help Microsoft’s most strategic insurance customers define and execute AI-led transformation agendas. This role is responsible for originating industry-led business opportunities and executive conversations that connect business outcomes to Microsoft cloud, data, AI, security, and partner capabilities. You will be the insurance industry subject matter expert engaging with senior business decision makers to identify, generate, and nurture transformational opportunities. You will go deep with select customers to help them move beyond isolated pilots toward governed, scalable AI adoption that delivers enterprise outcomes such as profitable growth, combined ratio improvement, claims and underwriting efficiency, better customer and agent experience, operational resilience, and regulatory trust. And you will develop Microsoft’s frontier insurance practice overall through thought leadership, targeted customer engagements, and strategic planning with Microsoft’s account teams and industry leadership. Responsibilities Planning and Engagement Serves as the insurance industry subject matter expert in digital and AI transformation and account planning. Engages internal stakeholders on account planning and partner business planning, including key business leaders, global systems integrators, independent software vendors, solution partners, and Microsoft account teams. Reviews customer industry plans and lends credibility by aligning Microsoft capabilities to strategic insurance priorities. Brings a multi-year strategic insurance perspective to account planning. Applies knowledge of insurance market dynamics, AI adoption, legacy modernization, rising claims costs, climate and catastrophe risk, distribution change, aging workforces, evolving customer expectations, regulatory scrutiny, and the shift from reactive risk transfer to proactive risk prevention and advisory models. - Leads multi-horizon planning that connects customer outcomes, business processes, data foundations, AI capabilities, governance models, and technology investments. Helps customers define roadmaps from near-term productivity and modernization opportunities to enterprise-scale AI operating model transformation. - Builds and maintains relationships with senior executive-level business decision makers. Acts as an industry advisor to executive teams by understanding their business strategy, operating model, market pressures, regulatory environment, and opportunities to create value with Microsoft technologies and partners. - Identifies stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, and implementation leaders for strategic insurance transformation opportunities and engages with those leaders to make it happen. Helps teams connect business sponsors, technology leaders, risk and compliance leaders, operations executives, and partner ecosystems around a shared transformation agenda. Sales Execution Identifies customer needs, industry readiness, and business value opportunities across the insurance value chain, including underwriting, claims, distribution, customer service, policy administration, actuarial and risk modeling, fraud detection, reinsurance, group benefits, life insurance, property and casualty, specialty insurance, and insurance brokerage. Leads industry-led conversations that connect Microsoft technology to measurable business outcomes. Helps customers understand how AI, agentic workflows, data platforms, copilots, automation, security, and governance can improve speed, accuracy, cost, customer experience, employee effectiveness, and risk decisioning. Uses an outcomes-inward approach to shape market-making opportunities. Starts with the customer outcome, such as faster turnaround, higher underwriter throughput, reduced claims cycle time, improved fraud detection, personalized policyholder engagement, increased producer productivity, or lower operational complexity, and works backward to the process, architecture, data, AI, and change-management requirements. Collaborates with account teams, rapid deployment teams, and other internal stakeholders to build and mature pipeline across the insurance industry territory. Conducts research with customers on their markets, operating models, pain points, and opportunities to apply AI and cloud technologies to enterprise-scale transformation. Represents the insurance industry perspective in customer conversations and ideation sessions. Helps create a shared vision and future direction for how Microsoft technology can transform the customer’s business from the front office to the core operational estate. Identifies, advances, and scales high-impact repeatable scenarios for strategic accounts, including agentic claims orchestration, AI-assisted underwriting, intelligent document processing, producer and broker copilots, claims fraud investigation, customer service automation, climate and catastrophe