Escalation Management - CTJ - Top Secret Security Clearance

Position: Support Escalation Management - CTJ - Top Secret with Security Clearance
Overview 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. 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. 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 Requirements:
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…