Customer Success Account Management (CSAM) Manager

Overview

In 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 Management (CSAM) Manager, you lead a high performing team of Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs) in varying stages of career development delivering on customer cloud health and adoption, cloud service management, customer relationship management, and customer success leadership. This is an exciting role that will help fuel customer success through your leadership with customers, and the teams that you empower!

This role has direct people management responsibility for CSAMs, 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 Manager is responsible for driving a repeatable and predictable business through customer engagement, strong business and team management, and by leading a team through a coach, model, care framework 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

Customer Relationship Management

• Leads by example through owning operational executive relationships with key customers, partners, and internal contacts to further Microsofts customer success goals, targeting executives (as appropriate). Ensures the customer is recognizing value as planned. Anticipates, identifies, and manages potential issues, escalating to appropriate teams for resolution. Expands customer relationships to create cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
• Identifies, understands, influences, challenges and manages the needs, expectations, and interests of key customer technical, business, and executive stakeholders. Ensures key stakeholders (including partners) are satisfied with agreed upon objectives and outcomes and that their interests are protected and valued. Leads and coaches business value conversations with key stakeholders.
• Collects feedback from internal and customer stakeholders on business needs, preferences, values, and goals to identify important customer patterns, pain points, attitudes, and expectations and coaches others to do the same. Prioritizes resource efforts to meet the most critical needs and expectations of customers. Reviews and communicates the status of delivery programs linked to customer priorities with internal stakeholders.

Customer Success Leadership

• Guides team in mobilizing resources for identifying, resolving, and mitigating blockers to accelerate consumption. Coaches team to identify pipeline opportunities, be accountable for milestones, and ensure committed milestones are completed to deliver growth in their customer portfolio. Coaches 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. Coaches team to deliver and articulate customer value, drive business growth, maximize customer retention and minimize customer churn.
• Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account, promoting identified opportunities for growth. Leads the team to adopt organizational and customer success strategy to maximize customers investments and value across all solution areas. Works with customers to define and agree upon a long-term approach to fuel adoption of Microsoft technology and services in alignment with the customers current and future goals and objectives. Supports account team planning, promoting business and technical needs for change to challenge customer thinking that drives transformation towards modern digital approaches.
• Coaches team on developing and delivering strategic roadmaps in partnership with key stakeholder and executives for executing program planning, managing key stakeholder and executive expectations via delivery of a Customer Success Plan (CSP), and prioritizing engagements to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success. Coaches team on leveraging, improving upon, and streamlining the use of Microsoft delivery management methodologies, processes, and tools to improve and mitigate risks to customer operational health. Coaches team on anticipating, identifying, and mitigating customer blockers and risks by leveraging Microsoft solutions and services, and developing deliverable programs of work. Guides team through leading delivery program reviews with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on customer outcomes and account priorities. Leads executive escalation management and communications for delivery programs in the customer account. Runs rhythms of business (RoBs) reviewing delivery excellence metrics (e.g., delivery backlog, bookings, unstaffed requests).

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.

Technical Relevance

• Coaches team members on implementing training plans focused on technical and industry knowledge development aligned with organizational goals. Coaches team members on and stays current with industry and Microsoft technical insights through consultation with the Customer Success community, peers, partners, and customer stakeholders. Advises customers on Microsoft technology trends and direction with relevance to Microsofts competition.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Masters 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 Bachelors 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience OR Bachelors Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 12+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years relevant work experience within Education or Non Profit industries.

• 3+ years people management experience.

• 3+ years experience managing a consumption portfolio.

• Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification.

• Prosci or equivalent certification.

Customer Success Account Mgmt M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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.