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. Advocacy and Customer Trust delivers connected support experiences to our customers to gain and keep their trust. This role is for the Senior Support escalation Manager for the CMET Asia team. In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Support Escalation Manager, you will be the primary contact managing escalated customer and partner issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and orchestration skills, and deepen your relationship management expertise. The Critical Situation Management Execution Team (CMET) is part of Customer Service and Support (CSS). CMET owns the Critical Situation (CritSit) Process and works across Services, CSS, Worldwide Commercial Business and GSMO and other business groups ensuring all the parts are compliant with the process and ensuring a high-quality customer and partner experience when facing a CritSit. CritSit are business critical situations escalated by Microsoft’s highest priority Premier customer segment that includes customers from government, military, and fortune 500 companies. This role will be a hybrid combination of working from home and office. 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** The Support Escalation Manager role is part of the CMET Execution Team and will assist with managing CritSit situations across all technologies. The primary focus is to meet customer needs by effectively managing internal and external resources and managing communication across all the parties involved in a CritSit. The Execution Team provides 24x7, 365 days a year business and after-hours coverage, identifying internal failings and driving positive change. Given the nature of the business, this position does require flexibility to work outside of standard business hours, including off business hours, weekends and public holidays. • Managing Premier Customers’ and Partners’ Critical Situation incidents to ensure that the CritSit process is being followed and any need of escalation is addressed. • Delivery of a high-quality customer and partner experience through timely and effective response to internal and external customer needs; owning active Critical Situations. • Delivering a high-quality customer and partner experience through timely and effective resolution of customer’s issues in the quickest way possible. • Expanding internal visibility of Premier Customers’ Critical Situations by managing complex, mission critical, or politically hot Premier customer situations, including Enterprise Accounts and Partners during afterhours. • Identifying systemic issues and flagging process breakdown during the execution of the CritSit Process. • Stepping up to take on challenges by acting as Crisis Manager in catastrophic outage situations. • Pursuing proactive actions to help prevent future issue. • Leading project and working group to improve process and tools. • Establishing / Maintain Relationships • Collaborating effectively with the customer and internal groups to solve customer issues and improve business processes in the quickest way possible. • Actively participating on projects initiatives owned by CMET • Providing CritSit reporting to allow businesses to make better decisions. • Customer Resolution: Act as a primary contact to understand issues and improve experiences for account-aligned customers and maintain relationships with internal and external teams to resolve customer issues. • Mentor others on the team and participate in strategic projects to enhance resolution times and customer satisfaction. • Provide status updates to customers and internal stakeholders and identify trends from internal retrospectives and suggest improvements. • Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to identify the right resources and manage escalated issues for account-aligned customers and ensure existing processes don’t hinder issue resolution. • Communication: Manage customer and field expectations around issue response and keep stakeholders informed on issue response and resolution status and communicate internally to drive faster issue resolution. • Process Improvement: Identify systematic issues and participates in improvement projects and creates executive summaries and identifies patterns in customer issues. • Vendor Relationships: Drive relationships with outsource vendors for issue resolution. **Qualifications** Required Qualifications: • 7+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience o OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience o OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 3+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience o OR equivalent experience Proficiency in spoken and written English is required. Fluency in Mandarin , Japanese or Korean will be preferred • 7+ years of working experience in a customer-oriented position (customer support / helpdesk / service delivery manager / critical situation management) of which a minimum of 1 year in technical role • Ability to work non-standard hours, weekends and public holidays is required • Bachelor’s Degree with major in Computer Science or Information Technology is preferred • Candidate should have broad knowledge of Microsoft products (Azure, Windows, M365) • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills; This position requires the ability to use assertive, positive and effective communications skills (written and oral) to market thoughts and ideas, work effectively across multiple management levels up the executive level as necessary. • Exceptional organizational skills to manage effective escalation, meeting customers expectations and ensuring positive contribution to business KPI`s • Candidate must be action oriented, demonstrate ability to drive issues to resolution on behalf of the customers This position requires flexibility in working shift based on the business needs. The working shift may vary depending on the operational demand, and it may include weekend shifts. Shift time usually would be between 12:00AM to 9:00AM UTC. 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) .