Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft Elevate

Overview

In Microsoft Elevate, we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. Elevate’s mission is to widen the circle of opportunity by strengthening education, social impact and workforce systems so people can thrive in the AI economy.  We do this by strengthening the institutions and systems communities rely on so people can learn, work, and thrive in the AI economy, bringing together trusted technology, training, and partnerships to help ensure AI delivers real opportunity.   

Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. Elevate is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how Elevate can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.     

As a Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft Elevate, you are the primary delivery lead and a partner for our more strategic customers, empowering them to achieve more by accelerating their business value across our Digital Cloud platforms. By leveraging your business acumen, industry perspectives, customer knowledge, and technical expertise you will be responsible for the end-to-end post sales delivery and support orchestration across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to align the right resources at the right time to achieve customer outcomes. Check out the CSAM role in the Customer Success Unit at Microsoft! Be ready to make impact! This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, leverage your delivery management capabilities and deepen your cloud and industry expertise. 

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

Customer Relationship Management 

Builds customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement models. Manages and/or supports foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders in collaboration with more experienced colleagues. Develops customer relationships beyond the current Unified Support contract consumers with a focus on understanding business priorities and how they align and realize the business value for customers and Microsoft. 

Identifies, navigates, communicates, and influences key customer technical and business stakeholders at different levels. Guides and leads conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives by leveraging their investment in Microsoft. Maps internal roles to customer priorities to action the needs of customers. Holds, maintains, and nurtures internal stakeholder relationships. Learns how to establish executive internal relationships. Develops communication techniques for holding business value conversations at customer executive levels. 

Gathers information on the business and Information Technology objectives for customer organizations to identify customer priorities and map them to appropriate solutions. Contributes to the development of a shared customer account plan to support customer objectives using partnerships with other account team leaders. 

Customer Success Leadership 

Identifies actual and potential blockers to consumption through data analysis and feedback from customers. Mobilizes resources to address actual and potential blockers to consumption and associated issues. Holds accountability for identified consumption milestones and their completion. Partners with customer to track progress, resolve blockers, and keeps activities on schedule to ensure meeting consumption milestones. Tracks adoption and usage of Microsoft products and services, works with customers to identify areas where adoption could be improved, and takes action to drive usage. Develops and leverages an understanding of retention and churn in their customer portfolio to begin identifying potential opportunities where retention may become an issue. 

Delivers on program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and engagement with key technical and business stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success. Applies the use of Microsoft delivery management methodologies, processes, and tools to manage customer operational health. Identifies and mitigates customer blockers by leveraging Microsoft solutions and services, and develops deliverable programs of work with guidance from more experienced colleagues. Orchestrates delivery resources to facilitate value realization with a focus on driving operational health. Performs delivery program reviews with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on customer outcomes and account priorities. Provides escalation management and communications for delivery programs in the customer account. 

Initiates conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. Adopts the organizational and customer success strategy. Begins to align Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives. Supports account team planning, promoting business and technical needs for change. Aligns with the account team to link Customer Success Plans (CSPs) with account plan priorities and develop bookable programs of work. Works with their customers to design programs that improve operational health. 

Technical Relevance 

Understands, identifies, and aligns Microsoft solutions, and technical capabilities (e.g., Azure, Modern Work, Dynamics) to customer needs and priorities. Leverages technical aptitude and industry awareness to translate customer interactions into customer business impact and value. Identifies customer scenarios and aligns with technical specialists to identify relevant cross-cloud technology solutions. Develops an awareness of the cloud technology marketplace, including Microsoft competitors. 

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 2+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 5+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) relevant work within Education or Non Profit industries. 
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365).
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification.

Customer Success Account Mgmt IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $86,100 - $169,800 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 $113,300 - $187,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This 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.