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Senior Support Escalation Manager

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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 Microsoft’s 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 Global Customer Success (GCS) organization is leading the effort to create the desired customer experience through support offer creation, driving digital transformation across our tools, and delivering operational excellence across CE&S. 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 help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment. Advocacy and Customer Trust (ACT) delivers connected support experiences to our customers to gain and keep their trust. Our Service Manager will be positioned and aligned with our customers as Chief Operating Officers within the account, strategically placed to ensure that we have the appropriate level of engagement to support and drive the customer’s reactive support landscape and improve operational health. As such you will work with some of the world’s largest companies, public sector depts and not for profit organisations pursuing strategic activities, utilising Microsoft technologies to modernise their business. We create an environment where you can do your best work and build a career both in the Service Manager role as well as the wider Microsoft. As your interests and goals evolve we will enable you to connect you with a diverse, thriving community that can help you grow. 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. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Job Responsibility:

  • Customer Resolution: Act as an internal expert to resolve longer-running, sensitive, or escalated issues and identify and build relationships with internal and external teams to resolve customer issues
  • Lead strategic projects and provide informal coaching and mentorship to less experienced Support Escalation Managers and coordinate resources and establish relationships to remediate future issues
  • Collaboration: Leverage relationships to remove roadblocks and develop written protocols for issue resolution
  • Identify reoccurring roadblocks and escalate as needed and manage escalated issues and ensure existing processes don’t hinder resolution
  • Communication: Manage customer and field expectations around issue response and keep stakeholders informed on issue response and resolution and build strategic relationships with internal teams and partners
  • Process Improvement: Surface feedback and identify systematic issues and lead process improvement efforts and review retrospective summaries and resolve recurring or sensitive issues
  • Vendor Relationships: Own and lead relationships with outsource vendors

Requirements:

  • 9+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 6+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience
  • Prior Incident and escalation management experience
  • Proficient in C-level stakeholder management
  • Project management experience (Preferred)
  • Experience working with Microsoft products and services (Preferred)
  • Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals. M365 Fundamentals) (Preferred)

Nice to have:

  • Project management experience
  • Experience working with Microsoft products and services
  • Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals. M365 Fundamentals)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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