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 Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment. As a Senior Support Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of support engineering roles with deep product knowledge that resolve customer technical issues. You will manage the customer relationship from a support standpoint, enable your team to deliver a great customer experience and drive Microsoft Product Improvement. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth and hone your customer relationship management skills. You will develop deep technology industry knowledge and become adept at building and leading diverse teams. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home. 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** Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue and manages customer relationship. Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks preventing issues from being resolved. Monitors complex problems based on triggers and collaborates. Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks preventing issues from being resolved. Identifies patterns, solutions, and collaborates with internal stakeholders to prioritize issues at the global level. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues. Analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for technologies and feature releases. Communicates aggregated customer feedback to stakeholders to influence and drive product quality improvements. Identifies resources needed to resolve bugs. Establishes requirements and collaborates with others across the organization to build monitoring and diagnostic tools that automate the discovery and resolution of issues. Creates and establishes operational frameworks and sets standards and measures for resolving issues. Ensures team member participation in case triage meetings and/or case discussions. Establishes an engagement strategy with internal teams to promote a consistent plan. **Business Integration** • Establishes an engagement strategy with internal teams to promote a consistent plan. Creates methods of relationship building and collaboration to influence local and global strategy for lifetime customer loyalty. **Product/Process Improvement** • Communicates aggregated customer feedback to stakeholders to influence and drive product quality improvements. • Creates and establishes operational frameworks and sets standards and measures for resolving issues. • Enhances processes or workflows across the line of business. • Establishes requirements and collaborates with others across the organization to build monitoring and diagnostic tools that automate the discovery and resolution of issues. • Ensures team member participation in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop efficient customer solutions by prioritizing issues, identifying resources, reviewing processes, or providing additional customer support. • Identifies resources needed to resolve bugs. Drives visibility of product bugs to ensure timely engagement and/or action. Tracks pending cases due to bugs and influences product team to improve resolution and prevent customers from being impacted. **Readiness** • Analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for technologies and feature releases. Provides feedback to global readiness team to ensure they have they appropriate readiness strategy and build material. Creates Microsoft role guides and ensures Technical Support Engineers have attended compliance trainings. Aids team in identifying gaps in technical documentation and collaborates with engineering and product teams to fill document gaps regarding new and existing technology. **Response and Resolution** •Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues. • Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue and manages customer relationship. Monitors tickets of direct reports and delivery units to ensure resolution. Uses tools and strategy to monitor the performance of a team or delivery unit as a whole (e.g., backlog, structure, trends, volume, other business metrics). Serves as the first line of management escalation. • Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks (e.g., skill gaps, handle difficult customers) preventing issues from being resolved. Acts as an escalation point in case resolution as necessary. Aligns resources of product group to support engineers. • Identifies patterns (e.g., number of cases with similar issues), solutions, and collaborates with internal stakeholders to prioritize issues at the global level. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience OR 7+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience. • +5 year experience being a direct people manager for support engineering teams (performance, mentoring, budgeting) • Proficiency with cloud technical expertise across various technologies such as Azure or AWS **Other Requirements:** _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._ **Preferred Qualifications:** • Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams • Understanding Customer Service & Support priorities • Microsoft Technology Certifications The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $128,000 - CAD $222,400 per year. Find additional pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Aug 7th, 2025. \#CES #CSS #DTP #DataAI 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .