With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoftu2019s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
The Principal Customer Experience Manager – Azure CxP is accountable for end-to-end engineering support delivery for an assigned portfolio of Microsoft strategic customers, demonstrating a critical partnership with internal and external stakeholders.u202fu202f This role serves as the primary leadership point of accountability and/or escalation for their portfolio of customers and has direct people management responsibility for Azure Customer Engineers. The ACE Manager is responsible for driving customer satisfaction.u202f
We are fundamentally changing how we deliver world-class support to our top Azure customers and building a new global support and operations team to do it. We are looking for a customer-obsessed Supportu202fLeadu202fto help us launch and grow a new team focused on delivering an extraordinary experience reinventing customer support. This is a unique role in the Azure CXP team following the \’\’Player-Coach\’\’ leadership principal with 50% customer engagement on complex support issues, and 50% managing and coaching a team of Azure Cloud Engineers in supporting our top Azure customers. This role requires strong operational, leadership, and technical skills to manage a team of engineers responsible for providing world class support to our customers. You will work with industry leading companies and directly partner with engineering teams within Azure to deliver solutions and new capabilities, leading a team of highly skilled engineers delivering support for our customersu2019 most mission critical Azure deployments.u202fu202f
Hire, on-board, develop, coach, mentor and evaluate Azure Customer Engineers. Set a clear bar for excellence. Build a high performing team that will be diverse and inclusive.u202f
Must possess exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication skills.u202f
Coach and enable your team to deliver world class support with an engineering mindset to strategic S500 customers.u202f
Drive operational excellence, including ACE direct case ownership, improved Time to Mitigate (TTM) and ACE Problem Resolution Owner function.u202f
Up level ACE role to focus on customer success and business impactu202f
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Microsoftu2019s 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**
Lead a Customer Obsessed Support Delivery Team:u202f
Lead a high-performing team that will directly support our top Azure customers and resolve critical and complex technical issues in a 24x7x365 environment. Align team efforts to deliver world-class support to meet ouru202fcustomer\’\’su202frequirements.u202f
Enable a customer obsessed environment where team members can relentlessly champion and advocate for our customers in representing their issues to engineering teams and be a change agent to develop innovative ways to resolve their issues.u202f
Build a team culture that thrives on customer obsession, where team members go above and beyond their immediate issue at hand to delight the customer and can predict and resolve the next issue before the customer reports it.u202f
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Continual Engineering Improvement:u202f
Build a framework where the team not only works closely with Azure engineering teams to support customers with their complex issues but invests in engineering practices such as daily scrum and triage meetings to deeply understand platform gaps based on feedback from customers, and insights gained while supporting them. And then collaborate with engineering teams across Azure based on au202fprioritizeu202flist of product improvement opportunities to eliminate top issues impacting customer experience.u202f
Create standards and best practices that simplify and optimize support capabilities, and drive adoption across multiple service teams across Azure, as well as to our broader Azure support delivery teams.u202f
Create an environment that fosters innovative approaches to automating customer solutions. Establish tight integration with Cloud Engineering System to continually improve the Azure support tooling and diagnostics capabilities.u202f
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Support Readiness:u202f
Foster an environment where support engineers are onboarded with the right balance of technical depth and breadth, so they can support a broad range of complex scenarios.u202f
Establish a readiness framework where support engineers are abreast ofu202flatestu202ftechnologies in a constantly changing environment.u202f
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People Leadership:u202f
Attract and build a diverse, high-performing team with capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives. Balance the development of existing employees while bringing in new external and internal talent. Identify and develop technical and soft skills needed to deliver outstanding support and solutions to our customers.u202f
Create an inclusive work environment where every employee can effectively engage and wants to be part of the team. Provide ongoing feedback that helps direct reports improve their performance. Promote a positive environment across the organization by modeling behavior that promotes good morale.u202f
Drive up-leveling of teamu2019s technical skills u202fu202f
Build and develop ACE Technical Subject Matter Expertise to effectively address complex problemsu202f
Leverage resources to help employees develop skills and support their career interests.u202f
Remove barriers to agility to enable the team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity.u202f
**Qualifications**
Required Qualifications:u202f
Experience delivering solutions and support to enterprise customersu202f
Experience managing and leading highly technical teams in a fast-paced environmentu202f
Bachelor\’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,u202fEngineeringu202for related fieldu202f
Experienceu202fwith cloud computing technologies; Azure Cloud preferredu202f
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong communication skills with executive presence, including the ability to holdu202fCxOu202fand BDM level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills requiredu202f
Knowledge of modern engineering practices such as Agile, Lean, etc.u202f
Strong passion and focus on delivering the right customer experienceu202f
Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop global teamsu202f
Ability to innovate and drive changeu202f
Ability to build a deep relationship with internal teams and customersu202f
The 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.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
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