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.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Support Escalation Manager, you will be the primary contact managing escalated customer and partner issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and orchestration skills, and deepen your relationship management expertise.

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.

• Customer Resolution: Act as a primary contact to understand issues and improve experiences for account-aligned customers and maintain relationships with internal and external teams to resolve customer issues.
• Mentor others on the team and participate in strategic projects to enhance resolution times and customer satisfaction.
• Provide status updates to customers and internal stakeholders and identify trends from internal retrospectives and suggest improvements.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to identify the right resources and manage escalated issues for account-aligned customers and ensure existing processes don’t hinder issue resolution.
• Communication: Manage customer and field expectations around issue response and keep stakeholders informed on issue response and resolution status and communicate internally to drive faster issue resolution.
• Process Improvement: Identify systematic issues and participates in improvement projects and creates executive summaries and identifies patterns in customer issues.
• Vendor Relationships: Drive relationships with outsource vendors for issue resolution.

Required Qualifications:
Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 3+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR 7+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR equivalent experience

Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 3+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR equivalent experience

Deep technical support experience for Windows and Office software (including consumer versions)
Prior experience as a Support Engineer in Windows and Office products and Microsoft Account.
Customer service and support experience.

Demonstrated business maturity.
Escalation management and critical situation handling.
Problem-solving and research skills.
Organizational skills with attention to detail.
Understanding of reverse logistics.
ITIL or similar problem management.

Ability to work in a highly diverse team spread across multiple time zones
Experience with consumer escalations is preferred

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.