Customer Microsoft 365 Onboarding Specialist

Customer Microsoft 365 Onboarding Specialist

Job Category
:
Service Delivery

Requisition Number
: CUSTO
001854

• Posted :
  December 16, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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US Corp Office
Herndon, VA 20171, USA

The Onboarding Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring Exostar customers experience a smooth, efficient, and successful transition onto our SaaS offerings—specifically Managed Microsoft 365 (MM365),
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), and Certification Assistant solutions. This customer-facing position combines technical expertise, project coordination, communication excellence, and a strong focus on customer success.

Acting as a trusted advisor, the Onboarding Specialist is responsible for guiding new customers through the end-to-end onboarding journey. This includes gathering customer use case scenarios, providing training and workshops and ensuring configurations are successfully set up to ensure our customers can use our products to meet their business and compliance needs.

This role requires the ability to work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Security, Support, and Customer Success teams to coordinate technical tasks, manage timelines, and proactively remove obstacles. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of Microsoft 365 and AVD technologies, experience implementing compliance-driven SaaS solutions, and an innate ability to simplify complex concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.

By delivering a structured, high-touch onboarding experience, the Onboarding Specialist accelerates customer time-to-value, strengthens long-term relationships, and contributes directly to customer satisfaction, retention, and the overall growth of Exostar’s product ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end onboarding lifecycle for new customers adopting Exostar’s Managed Microsoft 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Certification Assistant solutions, ensuring a seamless and timely deployment experience.
• Conduct onboarding kickoff sessions , gathering customer use case scenarios, establishing success criteria, and setting clear expectations with customer stakeholders.
• Configure and validate Microsoft 365, AVD, and Certification Assistant environments , including tenant configuration, and compliance-related setup activities.
• Provide expert guidance and best practices on our product solutions, compliance frameworks, and operational procedures to support customer readiness and long-term success.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, Security, Support, and Customer Success to resolve issues, elevate blockers, and ensure smooth transitions between teams.
• Develop and deliver customer training and workshop sessions , documentation, and enablement materials to ensure customers understand how to effectively use Exostar’s solutions.
• Monitor onboarding success metrics , track adoption milestones, and ensure customers are prepared for handoff to Customer Success and Support teams at the conclusion of onboarding.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the onboarding process , including workflow improvements, automation suggestions, documentation updates, and customer experience enhancements.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for internal teams by providing product feedback, contributing to onboarding playbooks, and supporting continuous improvement of implementation practices.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in customer onboarding, implementation, technical consulting, or IT project management within a SaaS or cloud services environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise with Microsoft cloud technologies, including Microsoft 365 administration, Azure Active Directory/Entra , and Azure Virtual Desktop deployment/configuration.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint migration tools, including hands‑on experience using Share Gate, and/or similar tools (e.g., Mover, Quest Migration Manager).
• Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts such as SSO, MFA, conditional access, RBAC, and user lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting…