Technical Support Engineering Manager

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.

As a Support Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of support engineering roles with deep product knowledge that resolve customer technical issues. You will manage the customer relationship from a support standpoint, enable your team to deliver a great customer experience and drive Microsoft Product Improvement. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth and hone your customer relationship management skills. You will develop deep technology industry knowledge and become adept at building and leading diverse teams. You will make sure customers stay informed as to the status / solution of their issue and manages customer relationship. Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks preventing issues from being resolved. Monitors complex problems based on triggers and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure that the right resources are engaged proactively. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues. Analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for new and existing technologies and feature releases. Ensures that his or her team understands the product feedback cycle and / or proper coding of customer cases for compliance. Identifies resources needed to resolve bugs. Identifies resources needed to implement automatization or tools. Implements processes for responding to and resolving issues. Ensures team member participation in case triage meetings and / or case discussions. Identifies opportunities to engage with high value or area customers to provide solutions proactively.

This role is Microsoft onsite only.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience OR 5+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience.
• 1+ year(s) of people management experience.
• Ability to read, write and speak fluent English

Other :

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.

Preferred Qualifications :

Responsibilities

Business Integration :