Senior Director, Customer Success Account Management

Senior Director, Customer Success Account Management

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We’re seeking a highly motivated, visionary and experienced Enterprise Commercial CSAM leader — someone who has held senior roles and led enterprise-scale delivery organizations, or driven Technology strategy and innovation across complex organizations. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical depth, operational excellence, business acumen, and a track record of shaping and delivering impactful Customer transformations.

This leader will oversee our Enterprise Commercial, Financial Services and Retail & Consumer Goods industries and Partner with the Public Sector CSAM Leader, it’s a customer-facing role, managing the teams that are the faces of the overall technical relationship and strategy between the customers and Microsoft. Your teams will own Unified customer engagements and the ideal candidate will have experience in building teams of customer-facing roles with technical expertise.

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

As a Customer Success Account Management (CSAM) Senior Director, you lead a high performing team of Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs) in varying stages of career development, cloud adoption, portfolio and program management, cloud service management and technology trends. This is an exciting role that will help fuel customer success through your leadership with business, customer, and team growth!

This role has direct people management responsibility for CSAM’s, has overall accountability for their team’s end to end Customer Success planning and delivery to an assigned portfolio of customers, while ensuring close partnership with internal and external stakeholders. Through their team the CSAM Senior Director is responsible for driving a repeatable and predictable business by leading a team through a coach, model, care framework driving strategic planning and the orchestration of delivery resources to drive strong customer outcomes aligned to their top priorities. This role has a flexible work model and can be performed from home or office with an estimated 25% travel dependent on customer portfolio.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Customer Relationship Management – You will lead by example to proactively develop relationships to further Microsoft's customer success goals with key customer, partner, and internal contacts.
• Customer Success leadership – Customer Strategy and Growth – You will drive conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account.
• You will develop a team culture identifying and sharing Customer insights and opportunities with their Account Team and Support sellers to drive new opportunities for growth and consumption.
• Customer Success Leadership and Consumption Leadership – You will coach a team to support customer adoption and active usage of Microsoft products and services aligned to outcomes and objectives defined within agreed-upon customer success plans.
• Customer Success Leadership – Delivery and Program Management – You will manage a repeatable and predictable business by coaching a team on program planning and customer-facing program review, managing key stakeholder and executive expectations via delivery of a Customer Success Plan , and prioritization of engagements to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.
• Technical Relevance – You will stay current with industry and Microsoft technical insights through consultation with the Customer Success community, peers, partners, and customer stakeholders.
• You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as attracting and retaining great people.
  
  

• Extensive experience in customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
• Extensive work experience within customer industry
• Extensive experience in people management
• Extensive experience managing a consumption portfolio
• Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
• Prosci or equivalent certification
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Software Development

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