Customer Success Account Manager

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Customer Success Account Mgmt

This role is for a Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, focusing on helping Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners leverage AI and cloud services for their business transformation. The role involves customer relationship management, strategic planning, program delivery, and orchestrating support resources to ensure customer success in their AI transformation journey. While the company and its customers are focused on AI transformation, the core craft of this role is customer success and account management, not building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Customer Relationship Management: You will develop relationships and influence with key customer stakeholders, that build joint accountability of their defined outcomes and long term trust.
  2. Customer Success Leadership and Customer Strategy and Growth: You will align planning and execution to priorities that have been agreed on between the customer and Microsoft unlocking tangible customer value.
  3. You will bring operational rigor to planning and delivery, leveraging resources and investments optimally, to achieve accelerated consumption and usage outcomes.
  4. Customer Success Leadership - Delivery and Program Management: You will lead the delivery of program planning, execution and customer-facing delivery reviews, and engagement with key customer stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities that deliver ongoing customer success.
  5. You will initiate conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account and ensure alignment of Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives.

Skills

Required

  • Project management experience
  • Support or consulting service delivery experience
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Relationship building skills
  • Leadership to orchestrate internal and external stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of market trends in cloud services
  • Experience in cloud architecture design and migration
  • Business level conversational ability in English

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation