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Customer Success Director

Microsoft, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Overview 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.

This role is for a Customer Success Account Management (CSAM) Manager who leads a high performing team of Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs) in varying stages of career development, cloud adoption, portfolio and program management, cloud service management and technology trends. This role will help fuel customer success through leadership with business, customer, and team growth. The role has direct people management responsibility for CSAMs and accountability for their team’s end-to-end Customer Success planning and delivery to an assigned portfolio of customers, while ensuring close partnership with internal and external stakeholders. Through their team the CSAM Manager drives a repeatable and predictable business by leading a coach, model, care framework that guides strategic planning and the orchestration of delivery resources to achieve strong customer outcomes aligned to top priorities. This role has a flexible work model and can be performed from home or office with an estimated 25% travel dependent on the customer portfolio.

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.

Responsibilities

Customer Relationship Management – You will lead by example to proactively develop relationships to further Microsoft's customer success goals with key customer, partner, and internal contacts.

Customer Success leadership – Customer Strategy and Growth – You will drive conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account.

You will develop a team culture identifying and sharing Customer insights and opportunities with their Account Team and Support sellers to drive new opportunities for growth and consumption.

Customer Success Leadership and Consumption Leadership – You will coach a team to support customer adoption and active usage of Microsoft products and services aligned to outcomes and objectives defined within agreed-upon customer success plans.

Customer Success Leadership – Delivery and Program Management – You will manage a repeatable and predictable business by coaching a team on program planning and customer-facing program review, managing key stakeholder and executive expectations via delivery of a Customer Success Plan, and prioritization of engagements to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.

Technical Relevance – You will stay current with industry and Microsoft technical insights through consultation with the Customer Success community, peers, partners, and customer stakeholders.

You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as attracting and retaining great people.

Other: Embody our culture and values

Qualifications Required Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.

3+ years people management experience.

3+ years experience managing a consumption portfolio.

Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification.

Prosci or equivalent certification.

Other Requirements

Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.

Customer Success Account Mgmt M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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