Microsoft.
Launching Azure services nobody had heard of into rooms full of people who already had a vendor.
Seven years launching Azure services. Twelve services shipped over the stretch, most of them infrastructure that engineers loved and procurement officers had never heard of. One of them was Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2, which is a sentence you can only love if you are the engineer who built it or the marketer who has to sell it. I learned to love it. Then I learned to translate it.
The work was finding the sentence that made a procurement officer say yes to a thing her engineers already wanted. Sometimes that sentence was thirty words long. Sometimes it was four. It was almost never the sentence the product team brought to the first meeting.