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 with focus on Data Protection. If you have a passion for customer service and love protecting customer data while improving the customer experience, this is THE opportunity for you.
As one of the largest service and support networks in the industry, Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) helps more than one billion customers around the world each year. We deliver technical support to our business customers for on-premise and cloud products and services.
As a member of our team, you will be in the forefront of the Microsoft Office 365 Data Protection with interactions across the full spectrum of our online productivity service 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 very 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. You will act as the voice of the customer to internal audiences such as the Microsoft’s Engineering Group, leveraging the culture of customer obsession at Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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.
Core Responsibilities include:
• Hire, develop and retain top talent.
• Manage and lead a team of Support Engineers and Support Escalation Engineers, with focus on team performance.
• Lead, schedule, and coordinate daily work, meetings, and projects relevant to the team and unit.
• Focus on customer satisfaction, technical proficiency, timeliness of support delivery and understanding customer needs around speed, quality and value.
• 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.
• Be responsible to assess employees’ performance based on Microsoft’s performance management philosophy.
• Ensure your direct reports develop their professional skills through active participation in delivery events, training, mentoring and communities.
• Develop your own management skills through active participation in Delivery and Management Excellence events, training, mentoring and communities.
• 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.
• Engage directly with global counterparts, with field services team and customers to ensure that we continually deliver high quality service and plan for future developments effectively.
