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Support Escalation Manager

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In-Office
Charlotte, NC, USA
98K-206K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Charlotte, NC, USA
98K-206K Annually
Senior level
Owns and resolves high‑severity customer escalations by coordinating engineering, operations, and partner teams; mentors peers; communicates status to leadership and customers; identifies trends and drives process improvements to reduce resolution time and improve support experience.
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Overview

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

Advocacy and Customer Trust  

• Do you want to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more?  

• Do you want to work in an open and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated?  

• If you love talking to and learning from customers and are excited about working with brilliant technical minds, we want to talk to you.  

 In Advocacy and Customer Trust, we are focused on how we can Empower, Help, and Advise Microsoft customers, partners and stakeholders. We engage in solving complex problems for our customers, we collaborate and share knowledge with each other, and we innovate on solutions to enable our customers to make the most of Microsoft products.  

 Our team is geographically distributed, we speak many languages, and we come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. We are rapidly expanding, and we are looking for talented people with a passion for solving complex issues and an obsession for customer happiness.  

Our culture is built around attributes that drive our every decision and our every action:  

• Customer Obsession - we exist for and because of the customer. We need people who share that passion and drive to make our customers’ experiences easy, insightful and trusted.  

• Growth Mindset - we value all perspectives and reward individuals that poke at the edges of what they know to be true. We are seeking people that think differently and are biased toward action to accomplish great things.  

• Diverse & Inclusive - we enable people who bring a contemporary view to shape our internal teams and encourage all to feel included.  

• One Microsoft - we collaborate and value the work of others, combining their learnings with our own to make a better outcome for our customers.  

• Making a difference - we drive impact by looking for ways to continually improve our day-to-day responsibilities and the connections between our work and others.

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
Collaboration
 
  • Collaborates with engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right resource. Acts as a subject matter expert on the written protocol to ensure the right groups are engaged to resolve customer issues.
  • Owns escalated issues and manages customer incidents to identify and remove barriers. Ensures existing processes are not a blocker to customer issue resolution and acts as a key player during process improvement efforts. Mentors other Support Escalation team members on how to handle moderate to highly complex cases.
Communication
  • Takes ownership of and nurtures relationships with internal teams and partners and proactively communicates with senior leadership on issues complex in scope and provides solutions to resolve them.
  • Manages customer and field expectations around issue response and represents the company independently. Ensures customer and MSFT internal stakeholders stay informed on the response and resolution status of customer issues. Communicates and influences internally to drive faster issue resolution.

Customer Resolution
 
  • Acts as a key player when supporting inter-regional, cross-regional, cross-group, or account team unit (ATU) initiatives by gathering feedback and identifying resources to improve the customer support experience for a group of customers or a specific region/area. Models best practices to support the customer experience.
  • Identifies trends across internal postmortems and suggests resources to drive opportunities within the team and across stakeholder groups in postmortem discussions to remediate future issues.
  • Acts on or plays a key role in strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience.
  • Acts as a primary contact to understand issues and improve the experiences of customers independently. Maintains and develops relationships with various internal and external teams to resolve customer issues. Mentors others the on Support Escalation Management team. Acts as a key member of projects to drive key strategic initiatives.
  • Provides status updates to customers and internal stakeholders through various channels of communication regarding issues, following the documented process.
Process Improvement
  • Identifies systematic issues and process breakdown and participates in a project or workgroup to improve systematic issues and internal processes.
  • Creates an executive summary detailing the customer issue, impact on the business, and status of the resolution. Identifies patterns in customer issues and supports the delivery of strategies to resolve them.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 3+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR 7+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience. 
  • 5+ years of experience in Partner Programs (including MAICPP, CSP, Co-Sell & Marketplace, DevCenter/Hardware, Vetting, CFAR/FROG Team, and Incentives) and/or 5+ years of advanced technical expertise in Microsoft technologies, with strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Azure (relevant certifications preferred).
  • 5+ years of escalation management experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. 

Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 6+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 5+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR 8+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience working with Microsoft products and services.
  • Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals. M365 Fundamentals).

Support Escalation Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 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 $125,000 - $206,400 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, read more about requesting accommodations.

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