Technical Support Advisory - Microsoft Suite products at Microsoft

San José, , Costa Rica -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

21 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Technical Support, Microsoft Suite, Troubleshooting, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Automation Techniques, Product Improvement, Mentoring, Technical Articles, Incident Resolution, Cross-Team Collaboration, Analytical Skills, Change Management, Customer Service, AI Technology, Problem Solving

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview With more than 45,000 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 Microsoft’s 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 Microsoft’s 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 experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s 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. We are looking for an individual who is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will be responsible to ensure seamless execution of programmatic workflows, uphold delivery standards, and drive alignment with strategic initiatives across the business all while driving delivery excellence in a collaborative environment to achieve superior customer outcomes. 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 Business Integration: Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy. Product/Process Improvement: Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness. Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements. Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team. Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes. Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution. Readiness: Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). develops expert level competence on support topics. Response and Resolution: Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand. Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future. Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level. Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR equivalent experience. Knowledge on Microsoft Suite products on a troubleshooting environment (Power BI, Outlook, Teams, OneNote) Prior exposure on technical support engineering roles and project management initiatives from strategy to execution Proficient with senior stakeholder management including the ability to influence at all levels Language requirement: Ability to read, write and speak fluent English. Other: Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: Proficient analytical skills with experience using OKRs, KPIs, and dashboards to measure impact Familiarity with tools such as ADO, MS Project/Planner, Power BI, or Pathfinder Demonstrated success in change management and driving adoption of strategic initiatives Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #CES #CSS #SCIM 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.

Responsibilities

The role involves ensuring seamless execution of programmatic workflows and driving delivery excellence in a collaborative environment. Responsibilities include implementing strategic business decisions, contributing to product/process improvements, and acting as an advisor for complex customer cases.