-Engage with customers to address reactive support queries
-Represent the customers business impact during escalations
-Drive the end-to-end problem resolution
-Proactive problem identification against the customers case portfolio
Responsibilities
Customer Resolution:
Acts as a primary contact to understand issues and improve the experiences of account-aligned customers with minimal guidance. Leverages established relationships with various internal teams to resolve customer issues.
Proactively contributes to regional, inter-group, or account team unit (ATU) initiatives by proactively providing feedback to the improve customer support experience for a customer or group of customers. Contributes to best practices to support the customer experience.
Provides status updates to customers and internal stakeholders through various channels of communication regarding issues, following the documented process.
Contributes to developing strategic projects which are designed to help improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience.
Gathers input from others, raises requests, and liaises between stakeholders during postmortem discussions to give a breakdown of what happened in assigned cases.
Collaboration:
Engages with engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right resource and. Follows and contributes to 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 or escalate as necessary. Ensures existing processes are not a blocker to customer issue resolution and flags incident issues when they appear.
Communication:
Manages customer and field expectations around issue response with limited support. Ensures customer and MSFT internal stakeholders stay informed on the response and resolution status of customer issues. Communicates and influences internally to drive resolution.
Develops and maintains relationships with internal teams and partners and proactively communicates with senior leadership on issues complex in scope.
Process Improvement:
Identifies, documents, consolidates, and voices feedback to improve systematic issues and internal processes.
Reviews post-mortem outcomes and creates an executive summary detailing the customer issue, impact on the business, and status of the resolution for review by managers and more senior escalation managers. Proactively escalates highly sensitive issues to senior support escalation managers.
Required:
Proven years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience.
OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND technology industry, customer service, or related experience.
OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND technology industry, customer service, or related experience.
OR equivalent experience.
Preferred:
Technology industries, customer service, or related proven experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, OR related field AND technology industry, customer service, or related experience
OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND technology industry, customer service, or related experience
OR equivalent experience.
Experience working with Microsoft products and services.