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Support Escalation Manager

Australia, Sydney · Job Posted April 12, 2026
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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 Asia Technical Services organization is responsible for landing Customer Support, Customer Experience and One Services priorities including being the local incident commander for large-scale events and high-impact outages, driving in region quality requirements, deliver incident management, and assessing regional support needs. In addition, we deliver on Global Customer Success priorities including landing customer success plays in region, orchestrating the MACC end-to-end experiences, driving usage end-to-end experience and performance, scaling best practices through regional partners, and accelerating Get Well Plans in partnership with CSS. As 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 is an individual contributor role and does not include people management responsibilities.

Job Responsibility

  • Collaborates with engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right resource
  • Acts as a subject matter expert on the written protocol to ensure the right groups are engaged to resolve customer issues
  • Owns escalated issues and manages account-aligned customer incidents to identify and remove barriers
  • Ensures existing processes are not a blocker to customer issue resolution and acts as a key player during process improvement efforts
  • Mentors other Support Escalation team members on how to handle moderate to highly complex cases
  • Takes ownership of and nurtures relationships with internal teams and partners and proactively communicates with senior leadership on issues complex in scope and provides solutions to resolve them
  • Manages customer and field expectations around issue response and represents the company independently
  • Ensures customer and MSFT internal stakeholders stay informed on the response and resolution status of customer issues
  • Communicates and influences internally to drive faster issue resolution
  • Acts as a key player when supporting inter-regional, cross-regional, cross-group, or account team unit (ATU) initiatives by gathering feedback and identifying resources to improve the customer support experience for a group of customers or a specific region/area
  • Models best practices to support the customer experience
  • Identifies trends across internal postmortems and suggests resources to drive opportunities within the team and across stakeholder groups in postmortem discussions to remediate future issues
  • Acts on or plays a key role in strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience
  • Acts as a primary contact to understand issues and improve the experiences of account-aligned customers independently
  • Maintains and develops relationships with various internal and external teams to resolve customer issues
  • Acts as a key member of projects to drive key strategic initiatives
  • Provides status updates to customers and internal stakeholders through various channels of communication regarding issues, following the documented process
  • Identifies systematic issues and process breakdown and participates in a project or workgroup to improve systematic issues and internal processes
  • Creates an executive summary detailing the customer issue, impact on the business, and status of the resolution
  • Identifies patterns in customer issues and supports the delivery of strategies to resolve them

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technology industry, customer service, or related experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 2+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
  • OR 5+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Verification of Australian citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions applicable to the role
  • Must provide a valid passport to verify citizenship

Nice to have

  • 8+ 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 5+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Experience working with Microsoft products and services
  • Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals, M365 Fundamentals)

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