Technical Support Engineer Tooling Lead
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Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
With more than 45000 employees and partners worldwide the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsofts products and services ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution ensuring that we consistently exceed customers expectations in every interaction whether in-product digital or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company including consulting customer success and support across Microsofts portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
Within CE&S the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support CSS we are powered by Microsofts AI technology to help consumers businesses partners and more resolve their issues quickly and securely helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.
In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Principal Technical Support Engineer you will engage with executive level customers and development teams across Microsoft to enable resolution of highly complex technical issues and drive appropriate product changes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth hone your deep technical expertise and become a technical leader within Microsoft.
Microsofts 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
- You will help define and drive the multi-year strategy and roadmap for the support tooling portfolio rationalizing and integrating the systems support engineers use every day making build-versus-buy decisions and prioritizing investments against clear operational outcomes such as agent productivity and CSAT.
- You will partner with engineering applied science and support leadership to embed AI responsibly into the workflow agent-assist case summarization knowledge retrieval and self-service and lead governance for quality safety privacy and Responsible AI across those experiences.
- You will own end-to-end coordination and release planning across teams instrument adoption and efficiency telemetry and serve as the technical leader who aligns the organization behind a shared tooling vision.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology (IT) or related field AND 10 years technical support technical consulting experience or information technology experience
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 15 years of technical support technical consulting experience or information technology experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 12 years in technical program or product management with substantial ownership of support service or workflow/productivity tooling -or- equivalent experience
- Demonstrated track record setting strategy for a tools or platform portfolio and driving measurable operational outcomes (e.g. deflection resolution time agent productivity CSAT).
- Fluency in applying AI/LLM capabilities to support scenarios agent-assist summarization knowledge retrieval and case deflection with the judgment to embed them responsibly.
- Ability to make build-versus-buy and tool-rationalization decisions across a fragmented systems landscape.
- Cross-functional leadership to align engineering support operations and business stakeholders behind a shared roadmap.
Technical Support Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130900 - $277200 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 $165600 - $303600 per year.
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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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