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We are looking for a Customer Success Strategic Director (CSSD) to drive program management for our largest and most complex global and strategic customers that have a significant number of key cross-cloud workload engagements running concurrently. As the CSSD, you will drive strategy, consumption planning & execution, as well as the acceleration of cloud adoption from Pilot or Minimal Viable Product/Prototype ( MVP) to production for customer cloud engagements. This will be done by providing cross-engagement oversight, resource orchestration, risk management, and blocker escalation, all while operating in close collaboration with key account team unit members and business partners who are supporting customer success.

As a Customer Success Strategic Director (CSSD), you are the primary customer facing role responsible for customer success through the management of program deliveries and strong customer executive relationships at our largest, most complex and strategic customers. The prevailing business priority is the customers’ successful adoption and productive use of Microsoft cloud and AI technologies. You are front and center with our customers in support of their digital journey and empowering them to achieve mission success.

The Customer Success Strategic Director is a leader on the account team who partners to programmatically align the consumption plan to the account plan, orchestrate technology onboarding in line with customer priorities, and ensures value realization of a customer’s Microsoft investment through consumption, operational health, and customer experience. The CSSD is accountable for the development and execution of the customer consumption plan and operational health, leveraging technical resources across all solution areas. The CSSD provides senior delivery leadership, for our largest and most complex accounts, focused on ensuring delivery is driving the customer’s success and consistently achieving our shared objectives and outcomes. They will oversee and ensure prioritized alignment of coordinated outcomes across Support Programs, Customer Success Engagements, and Consulting projects that will drive consumption, supportability, and operational health improvements.

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, 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

Partner with the Account Director, Strategic Account Executive and Account Technology Strategist to build and execute the Strategic Account Plan –Lead the success & support team, aligning to prioritized customer solutions, managing the Strategic Account Plan at a global level.

**Accountable for the Consumption plan** - Accountable for the development and execution of the internal and customer-facing aspects cross-cloud consumption plan, with support from the technical resources aligned to the account. Ensures prioritized success engagements progress from Validate through Commit with a Program Delivery plan and up-to-date milestones.

**Engage Customer Executive Sponsors** - Establishes and nurtures strong executive sponsorship and manages the relationships with senior customer leadership to drive the execution of the support coverage model, strategic account plan, consumption roadmap & delivery execution oversight.

**Engage Microsoft Executive Sponsors** - Aligns with Microsoft Executive Sponsors to establish an engagement model and manage the communication & escalation strategies with customer leadership.

**Leverage Technology Experience** - Is experienced with real-world, hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting large technology solutions. Knowledgeable and experienced in creating solutions that leverage cloud and AI technologies and that provide maximum business value, are repeatable, and sustain the test of time.

**Accountable for Delivery Orchestration & Support Outcomes** - Provides leadership and orchestration across the Federal Customer Success Unit (CSU) team, Microsoft technical specialists, customer technical teams, Microsoft and partner project teams, and the entire ecosystem of Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs) and Consultants as appropriate. Balances prioritization between implementing new innovative capabilities and ensuring customer operational health.

**Provides Delivery Leadership** - Leads and strategically orchestrates a team of CSAMs and the overall global account support and success team to ensure the health of the customer’s solutions, orchestrated prioritized modernization and transformation projects, which lead to customer outcomes.

**Accountable for Consumption Planning and Execution for Strategic Pursuits** - Aligns the strategic account planning and cross-organization support coverage to drive consumption planning and success engagement execution aligned to the desired customer outcomes.

The Customer Success Strategic Director will be accountable for the development and execution of a cross-cloud consumption plan, and operational health of the customer solutions deployed today and in the future.

Other

+ Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR equivalent experience.

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 restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred qualifications

+ 5+ years relevant work experience within Federal/Government Industry.

+ Experience in a Senior Program Manager or Senior Engagement Manager position focused on cloud and software/services solution preferred.

+ Experience building relationships with senior customer roles in large or highly strategic accounts.

+ Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions and engagements required.

+ Experience planning for a portfolio of engagements, cross-group collaboration, resource orchestration, communications, analytical capabilities.

+ Experience with technical engagement and delivery management and/or program management for large, complex, and global strategic customers.

**Customer Success Account Mgmt IC5** - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 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 $165,600 - $272,300 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 10, 2025.

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