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A Principal CSAM is a senior customer success leader responsible for driving strategic customer outcomes, accelerating cloud and AI adoption, and ensuring long-term customer health and value realization across enterprise accounts. The role acts as the trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders while orchestrating Microsoft's full capabilities to deliver measurable business impact.
Job Responsibility
Strategic Customer Leadership: Own the end-to-end customer success strategy, aligning Microsoft solutions to customer business priorities and driving executive engagement and trust
Customer Health & Value Realization: Lead customer health, security, resiliency, and operational excellence while proactively preventing risks and managing critical situations
Consumption & Growth: Drive Azure and AI consumption growth by identifying expansion opportunities, accelerating adoption, and ensuring delivery of committed outcomes
Orchestration & Delivery Excellence: Orchestrate cross-functional teams (CSA, partners, delivery, sales) to execute high-quality, outcome-driven engagements and Customer Success Plans
Trusted Advisory & AI Leadership: Act as a strategic advisor on digital transformation and AI, guiding customers through adoption journeys and aligning technology to business value
Business Ownership & Influence: Operate with strong business accountability—balancing customer success, consumption targets, and long-term partnership growth
Requirements
Extensive experience in enterprise customer success, account management, or consulting roles, with proven ability to engage and influence C-level stakeholders and lead complex, strategic accounts
Strong track record of driving customer outcomes, consumption growth, and long-term partnerships, with the ability to translate business priorities into actionable technology strategies
Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure), data, security, and AI/Copilot solutions, with the ability to lead architectural conversations alongside technical teams and guide adoption strategies
Demonstrated ability to orchestrate cross-functional teams (CSA, partners, support, sales) and manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale, multi-workload programs
Experience driving customer health, resiliency, and security outcomes, including proactive risk mitigation and crisis/incident management
Strong operational discipline with the ability to drive execution against consumption targets, customer success plans, and measurable KPIs
Proven ability to work across 'One Microsoft', influencing stakeholders across sales, engineering, and partners to deliver unified customer outcomes
Commitment to continuous improvement, skilling in emerging technologies (AI, Copilot), and modeling Microsoft's culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer obsession
Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR equivalent experience
Nice to have
Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 12+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR equivalent experience
5+ years relevant work experience within customer industry
Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification