Job Description

Overview

Support Escalation Manager - Incident Manager acts as a primary contact to understand issues and improve the experiences of account-aligned customers with minimal guidance. 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. Owns escalated issues and manages account-aligned customer incidents to identify and remove barriers or escalate as necessary. Ensures customer and MSFT internal stakeholders stay informed on the response and resolution status of customer issues. Communicates and influences internally to drive resolution. Identifies, documents, consolidates, and voices feedback to improve systematic issues and internal processes. Participates and drives relationships with outsource vendor to resolve issues and foster positive cultural and behavioral changes. Must be willing to commute to client sites when required.

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or Intelligence community. 

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. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 2+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR 5+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: 

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance.  Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance 

Preferrred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 3+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR 7+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working with Microsoft products and services.

Support Escalation Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 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 $100,800 - $168,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 14, 2025

Responsibilities

Collaboration

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.

Engages with engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right resource. Follows and contributes to the written protocol to ensure the right groups are engaged to resolve customer issues.

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.

Customer Resolution

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.

Gathers input from others, raises requests, and liaises between stakeholders during postmortem discussions to give a breakdown of what happened in assigned cases.

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.

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.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

 Industry leading healthcare

 Educational resources

 Discounts on products and services

 Savings and investments

 Maternity and paternity leave

 Generous time away

 Giving programs

 Opportunities to network and connect

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