MicroStrategy Career Opportunities

Our Mission:

Our mission is to empower every business user to make more informed decisions by providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers to their business questions. To achieve this mission, we endeavor to build the best business intelligence software in the world — a single, integrated platform supporting all styles of business intelligence through the easiest-to-use interface and delivery channel possible. We provide superior analytical performance to every business user in the format that suits them best — from high-level dashboards, to custom reports, to advanced analysis. We meticulously engineer our software to guarantee its reliability, scalability, security, and ease of administration for organizations of all sizes.

Since 1989, MicroStrategy has built a team of outstanding individuals across the company. We currently have more than 1,800 employees in 24 different countries throughout the world, including more than 700 in our corporate headquarters in McLean, VA (Washington, D.C. Metro Area). MicroStrategy's educated and diverse workforce blends the talents of industry veterans with top scholars representing over 30 different countries and the most academically challenging and prestigious schools in the world.

We Recruit With Intelligence
MicroStrategy’s culture goes beyond school pedigrees, class rankings, resumes and technical aptitude. We realize that effective employees need to work well with people, not just with software. MicroStrategy's selection process ensures the people we employ have the interpersonal skills to work well and succeed within a dynamic environment.

A Unique and Highly Motivating Place to Work
MicroStrategy is a special place where creativity, enthusiasm and excellence abound. We attract bright, determined people with a track record of success and achievement, who are analytical and enjoy an intellectually stimulating atmosphere, and who balance individualism with an understanding of the value of teamwork.

At MicroStrategy, we enhance your skill set with ongoing learning opportunities. We offer you a challenging entrepreneurial environment, where innovation, initiative and hard work are encouraged, nurtured and rewarded. Our employees take pride in contributing to the continued evolution of an award-winning product that is at the vanguard of the information technology industry. As a MicroStrategy employee, you will contribute to industry-leading solutions, redefine the playing field, invent new features and solutions, and create the market for tomorrow.

Awards
With hundreds of the world's leading companies as customers, MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence solutions set the standard worldwide. Our pioneering leadership has earned accolades from renowned technology and business publications like Fortune, Intelligent Enterprise, Investors Business Daily, the Washington Post, Red Herring and Information Week, as well as prominent industry analysts like the Gartner Group and the Patricia Seybold Group.

2009

Retail Info Systems News
MicroStrategy was named by RIS News to its 2009 Software LeaderBoard, which highlights the top software vendors for retailers. The RIS Software LeaderBoard compares software companies serving the retail industry in a head-to-head ranking that is based largely on retailer evaluations.

BeyeNETWORK 2009 Vision Award for Business Impact
More than four dozen submissions across six categories exemplified the variety of ways that business are using software to improve decision making and provide true strategic and tactical value to their organizations. MicroStrategy won BeyeNETWORK's 2009 Vision Award for Business Impact in the Operational BI category, for its BI implementation at Nygård International.

Intelligent Enterprise "The Dozen" most influential companies in Enterprise IT
Intelligent Enterprise chose 48 companies that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer leadership in attaining strategic objectives. The online publication also named MicroStrategy as one of an elite 12 companies, proclaiming them "The Dozen" most influential companies for intelligent enterprises in 2009.

Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice Awards 2009
MicroStrategy ranked as one of the Top 8 Business Intelligence Companies in Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice Awards 2009.

2008

Forbes 200 Best Small Companies List
MicroStrategy was named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America list for 2008. The candidates for Forbes 200 Best Small Companies all had revenue of $5 million to $750 million and share prices above $5, as of September 29, 2008.

TDWI 2008 Best Practices Awards Program
MicroStrategy customer Guy Carpenter won a TDWI 2008 Best Practices in Data Warehousing award, in the category of Radical Business Intelligence. TDWI’s Best Practices Awards program is designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated excellence in developing, deploying, and maintaining BI and DW applications.

Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice Awards 2008
MicroStrategy ranked as one of the Top 10 Business Intelligence Companies in Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice Awards 2008.

Intelligent Enterprise Companies to Watch 2008
The editors of Intelligent Enterprise magazine chose 48 companies that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation, and customer leadership in attaining strategic objectives. MicroStrategy was selected as one of the companies to watch in the business intelligence category.

RIS News 2007 Software LeaderBoard
MicroStrategy was named by Retail Info Systems to its prestigious 2007 Software LeaderBoard. The RIS LeaderBoard compares software companies serving the retail industry in a head-to-head ranking that is largely based on retailer evaluations. MicroStrategy ranked #13 on the list of the Top 45 software vendors and # 7 on the Tier One list, which reflects the preferred software vendors of retailers with revenues greater than $1 billion. MicroStrategy ranked in the top 10 in two of the three largest segments of retailers: specialty retailing and apparel/footwear.