Partner Technical Advisor

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Job Description

Partner Technical Advisor

Bangalore, Karnataka, India


Date posted
Aug 06, 2025
Job number
1852332
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Technical Support
Discipline
Technical Support Advisory
Employment type
Full-Time

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.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency.

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.
Do you have passion for influencing Customer’s Support Experiences? Do you believe Customer satisfaction is core to the success of any business? Are you technically minded, a life-long learner who is excited by the possibilities of leveraging technology and AI to remove blockers for customers and support advocates. Do you thrive on analyzing data and feedback to make a support experience better? Are you someone with a passion to solve real world business problems?

If you have answered yes to these questions, then this role may be for you.As Microsoft transforms to help customers achieve more in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, support plays a critical role. To do this, we must deeply understand customers' real needs and design, implement and manage support experiences that meet those needs.
Partner Technical Advisors will spend time walking in the customer’s and advocate’s shoes, through our portals (product, online, assisted) and tooling into the support experiences, understanding the challenges and detailing areas for improvement or innovations for advocates.

You will be responsible for the readiness of our advocates and work to improve customer experience by removing blockers for our support advocates to help customers when they need it most. Through a global network of 3rd party suppliers our Partner Technical Advisors have a critical role in making operational and programmatic changes a reality. You will deliver unique value by influencing supplier support staff in terms of their technical capabilities, case management and by handling emerging issues to improve case progress/wellness towards great Customer and Partner experience. We enable our transformation with telemetry, tools, readiness, and business intelligence to drive successful outcomes for our customers. We know our customers and anticipate their needs across every stage of the lifecycle.

You will be instrumental in helping drive the end-to-end support experience for customers that require assistance. You will help define and drive the execution of the social support, customer listening strategies to deepen our understanding and improve our customers support experiences across all Microsoft products and services.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Business, Social Science, Marketing, Communications, or related field AND 2+ years of related work experience (e.g., technical/customer services, technical/customer support, business process operations, product development/management, product marketing, business or product strategy, technical consulting, data analysis)
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Social Science, Marketing, Communications, or related field AND 4+ years of related work experience (e.g., technical/customer services, technical/customer support, business proces
    • OR 7+ years of related work experience (e.g., technical/customer services, technical/customer support, business process operations, product development/management, product marketing, business or product strategy, technical consulting, data analysis).
Must Have Personal Attributes / Skills
  • Analytical thinker and ability to diagnose business problems.
  • Great communication skills with technology partners, business partners, and data scientists
  • Demonstrate cross-group collaboration and interpersonal awareness.
  • Flexible and resourceful, with a figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.
  • Being able to work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment & confident in managing uncertainty.
  • Desire to learn and adopt new technologies and analysis methodologies.
  • Proven strategic thinking and orchestration of complex business planning.
  • Strong PM skills to drive ideas to solutions (removing the roadblocks)
  • Strong verbal, written and presentation skills in English with other languages advantageous.
  • Passion for driving product, workflow, content, and policy enhancements that benefit consumers.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ technical support experience working with outsourced vendors, contact center experience, direct customer support experience, program management, and/or support management experience.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Japanese, Korean or other ASIA region languages would be advantageous

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

  • Drives alignment and teamwork within a team, department, or across organizational boundaries. Combines resources and joins efforts to achieve company-wide goals.
  • Anticipates customer and advocate needs, and proactively meets and exceeds customer expectations. Recognizes the issues that customers want to resolve, and creates, or facilitates the creation of, products and services to address customer needs.
  • Communicates and networks effectively. Successfully persuades and influences others and can effectively build trusted relationships with 3rd party suppliers.

Key Responsibilities:


Quality Management:

  • Drive quality ROB and Framework in partnership with Delivery Partners and Service Delivery Managers (e.g. DSAT analysis, case wellness, calibrations)
  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), identify action needed and provide support to Delivery Partners to highlight best practices or close gaps.
  • Monitor & identify opportunities for improvement in issue identification and resolution, workflow and tool efficacy, advocate knowledge or soft skills and provide support to Delivery Partners and internal stakeholders where needed to close gaps.
  • Review Stakeholder Monthly Business Review (MBR) communications and provide insight into performance issues for MBR reporting.

Readiness:

  • Ensure release & readiness activities are successfully executed, and have a consistent process that includes communication, timing, and monitoring.
  • Partner with training development and knowledge content Shared Services teams to prioritize and manage the needs identified by team members.
  • Drive workflow process and/or policy design & improvements that improve the customer experience.

Consultation & Escalations:

  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert resource and supportive coach as needed for case escalations from Delivery Partners
  • Identify and drive proper ownership and Delivery Partner empowerment to reduce escalations that require PTA engagement.
  • For internal partners: Serve as the initial escalation point for emerging and trending issues. Serve as a SME for process and/or policy related issues and ensure proper follow up and closure.
  • Assist internal partners with Risk mitigation and fraud prevention by understanding application and intersection of product, tools, process, policy, agent, and customer behaviors

Voice of the Advocate/ Voice of the Customer:

  • Champion the needs of the advocate community as well as customers and facilitate distribution of VOA / VOC feedback with internal stakeholders to drive changes as required and career development activities.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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