Technical Support Engineering Manager - Azure Rapid Response

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth
mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to
bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations
that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our
mission.

With over ‎15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and
Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and
implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly
expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a
customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every
person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by
delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every
interaction through a connected customer experience.

Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and
drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction,
retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a
passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where
customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products
and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected
customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer
outcomes.

Azure is one of the most exciting businesses to be part of at Microsoft today.
Not only is Azure one of the fastest growing services at Microsoft, it is also
highly strategic and a key pillar in Microsoft's overall Devices and Services
strategy. If you love talking to and learning from customers, and are excited
about working with brilliant technical minds, and motivating and rewarding
people, we want to talk to you. We are looking for an intellectually curious,
customer-obsessed Support Engineering Manager. We are looking for someone who
is a lifetime learner and has a demonstrated track record in building teams
through effective and strong leadership, who has empowered people to help
customers succeed.

As one of the largest services and support networks in the industry, Microsoft
Customer Service and Support (CSS) helps more than one billion customers
around the world each year. As a member of our team, you will be in the
forefront of the Microsoft technologies with interactions across the full
spectrum of our products and services, on premise and in the cloud. You will
be surrounded by people that are insatiably curious and always learning,
obsessed about our customers, and who believe that world class support is
critical to customer success. You will be part of a diverse team in an
inclusive environment, where all opinions are valued. You will represent
Microsoft to our customers and will work directly with our most relevant
internal groups to drive change that enhances the customer experience.

Responsibilities

You will act as the voice of the customer to internal audiences such as the
Microsoft Engineering Group, leveraging the culture of customer obsession at
Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to
achieve more. Our culture is built around attributes that drive our every
decision, and our every action.
*
Customer Obsession - we exist for and because of the customer. We need people
who share that passion and drive to make our customers experiences easy,
insightful and trusted.
* Continuous learning Mindset - we value all perspectives and reward individuals that poke at the edges of what they know to be true. We are seeking people that think differently and are biased toward action to accomplish great things.
* Diverse & Inclusive - we enable people who bring a contemporary view to shape our internal teams, and encourage new hires to feel included.
* One Microsoft - we need to collaborate and learn to value the work of others, be willing to take their learnings and add them to our own to make a better outcome for our customers.
* Making a difference - drive impact by looking for ways to continually improve your day to day responsibilities and the connections between your work and others.

Core responsibilities:
* Attract, recruit and retain the right talent with the focus to create an industry-leading service delivery team, build diverse and inclusive teams, enable an environment in which people can do their best work, and identify/develop future successors and team members.
* Manage and lead a team of Support Engineers and Support Escalation Engineers, with focus on team performance. Demonstrate subject matter expertise in management/leadership/innovation within Microsoft Cloud Strategy.
* Regularly meet one-on-one with your direct reports, and conduct employee connects and career development discussions along the year.
* Provide feedback on an ongoing basis and coach engineers on improving communication skills, technical ability and speed of customer and internal deliverables.
* Ensure your direct reports develop their professional skills through active participation in delivery events, training, mentoring and communities.
* Focus on customer satisfaction, technical proficiency, timeliness of support delivery and understanding customer needs around speed, quality and value.
* Build effective relationship with global Customer Service and Support leaders, Microsoft engineering and business leaders for effective projects for right business impact.
* Manage high priority escalations as appropriate. Respond to escalated customer cases in a timely manner, ensuring appropriate resources are assigned; engage directly with customers, escalation teams, field personnel, and ensure robust status communication.
* Coordinate and communicate with field teams (Sales, CSAM's, and Customer Engineers) to ensure the right consumer expectation setting.

Qualifications

Language Qualification
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Required Qualifications and Experience:
Degree in Management, Business, Computer Science, or equivalent in work
experience.
Prior People management experience/customer support leadership experience
Preferred Knowledge and Skills:
* Strong ability to attract, develop and retain top talent.
* Change agent: natural at embracing change and lead people through ambiguity and transformation.
* Ability to set and communicate team and individual goals and communicate strategy, tactics and behaviors required to achieve those goals.
* Capability to supervise work, set the behavioral example and adjust strategies and tactics as necessary.
* Adept at coordinating team meetings to communicate team information, conduct training and to receive team feedback.
* Proficiency in coordinating and conducting ‎1:1 meeting with individual team members to provide instruction, coaching and personal development as well as to receive personal feedback.
* Great writing skills and ability to write and deliver individual reviews.
* Qualified to maintain individual and team discipline, cohesiveness and morale
* Exceptional leadership, collaboration and negotiation skills working in a complex, matrix organizational structure.

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.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color,
family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic
information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or
mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race,
religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other
characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We
also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories,
consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable
accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting
process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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