Microsoft Sr Customer Experience Engineering Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

257467441

Qualifications and Experience:

• 12+ years of customer facing experience managing critical situations for global Fortune 500 customers.
• 3+ years of experience managing and leading highly technical teams in an agile & fast-paced environment.
• 3+ years of experience identifying customer needs & requirements, resolving customer reported challenges, developing customer-centric solutions, and delivering stellar customer experiences.
• 3+ years of experience in a support, product management, program management or engineering environment.
• Demonstrated track record of juggling multiple priorities successfully in a fast paced, agile environment.
• Possess successful cross-teaming skills, including cultivating and influencing virtual stakeholder teams to achieve large impact results.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop global teams that innovate and drive change.
• Sound understanding of cloud computing technologies across various customer lifecycles of deployment and support.

Responsibilities:

As a Customer Engineering Manager, you are accountable for the customer’s support experience on Azure by driving engineering led support and improving customer confidence on Azure. The responsibilities for this role include:

• Lead a high-performing team that will technically manage our key Azure customers in partnership with support and engineering teams to break fix critical and complex technical issues.
• Enable a customer obsessed environment where team members can relentlessly champion and advocate for our customers in representing their issues to engineering teams and be a change agent to develop innovative ways to resolve their issues.
• Build a team culture that thrives on customer obsession, where team members go above and beyond their immediate issue at hand to delight the customers and can predict and resolve the next issue before the customer reports it.
• Build a close working relationship with the teams related to assigned service areas to leverage in case of escalations, as well as to drive product improvements.

Continual Engineering Improvement:

• Build a framework where the team not only works closely with Azure engineering teams to support customers with their complex issues but invests in engineering practices such as daily scrum and triage meetings to deeply understand platform gaps based on feedback and insights gained while supporting our customers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Azure based on a prioritize list of product improvement opportunities to eliminate top issues impacting customer experience.
• Create standards and best practices that simplify and optimize support capabilities, and drive adoption across multiple service teams across Azure, as well as to our broader Azure support delivery teams.
• Create an environment that fosters innovative approaches to automating customer solutions. Establish tight integration with Cloud Engineering to continually improve the Azure support tooling and diagnostics capabilities.

Technical Readiness:

• Foster an environment where Customer Engineers are onboarded with the right balance of technical depth and breadth, so they can support a broad range of complex scenarios.
• Establish a readiness framework where support engineers are abreast of latest technologies in a constantly changing environment through active triaging of cases as well as end to end case ownership.

People and Culture:

• Attract and build a diverse, high-performing team with capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives. Balance the development of existing employees while bringing in new and diverse external and internal talent.
• Create an inclusive work environment where every employee can effectively engage and wants to be part of the team. Provide ongoing feedback that helps direct reports improve their performance. Promote a positive environment across the organization by modeling behavior that promotes good morale.
• Identify and develop technical and soft skills needed to deliver outstanding support and solutions to our customers. Leverage resources to help employees develop skills and support their career interests.
• Remove barriers to agility to enable the team to shift priorities quickly without losing customer focus and efficiency.