Customer Success Manager - Education

This Customer Success Manager role will cover managed Modern Work customers in their area. This is an exciting role that will drive usage and consumption of customer owned workloads that will create bonds with our Education customers and will fuel customer success, retention, growth renewal. Your work will be focused on helping our Education customers achieve their mission and purpose by working with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams workloads, with focus on Meetings, Teams as a Platform, and emerging technologies like Microsoft Viva.ResponsibilitiesBe the Modern Work consumption subject matter expert with the ability to design customer solutions, lead presentations, demonstrations, and workshops with both BDMs and ITDMs.Drive Microsoft 365 value, retention, growth, and position for upsell

Act as the single point of accountability for Monthly Active Usage (MAU) for Teams Platform, Meetings and Devices workloads within the customer while proactively identifying new workloads and expansion opportunities. Lead rhythm of business for these metrics.

Drive Teams as the platform for business processes by leveraging Level 200 depth across Teams as a Platform solutions and combining with business acumen to solve customer needs.

Drive Teams as the Modern Communications platform of choice at your customers.

Complement Platform depth with Level 200 depth across Microsoft 365 solutions

Understand and capture desired customer outcomes. Use those outcomes to propose solutions based on Microsoft technologies that would solve customer needs.

Build a high quality "success plan" inclusive of customer objectives, stakeholders, milestones, risks and metrics needed to achieve them.

Build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with IT Decision Makers (ITDMs), C-Suite & Business Decision Makers (BDMs)

Build or leverage conceptual pilots and demos for desired outcomes using Modern Work capabilities including Teams Meetings, Teams as a Platform, Microsoft Viva, FrontLine scenarios, Meetings Rooms, and more.

Be the conduit between the Business and IT and develop trusted relationships with both.

Drive IT alignment with proposed business solutions, and design implementation of solution with complementary roles

Represent the technical "Voice of the Customer" within Microsoft to inform and influence engineering on product capabilities across Platform & Meetings

Manage consumption governance across customer, Microsoft, and partners.

Lead change management plan and outcomes to create viral adoption

Share best practices locally and with Corp HQ , and secure reference customers.

Have a learn-it-all mentality, and drive influence with your knowledge on the customer, industry, product, and technology.

Operate as One Microsoft by complimentary roles to drive business outcomes and incremental value creation.

OtherEmbody our culture and values

QualificationsQualificationsRequired/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 2+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)

OR Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 3+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)

OR Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 2+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)

OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) experience in change management and/or technology adoption.

Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci).

2+ years of experience in customer success or an IT related field with business experience or exposure. Experience in consulting or pre-sales, experience in both is ideal.

Experience in Customer Success for productivity, employee experience solutions, and business process transformation platforms

Strong technical aptitude, and desire to work with both business and IT.

Ability to map the customer’s business process to product capability within the M365 Platform, and solution and demo proposed solutions to customer.

Experience in running governance of complex deployment and usage projects within large organizations.

Strong technical understanding (L200+) of Microsoft Teams as a Platform (including Power Platform)

Complemented with level 200 technical depth across Microsoft 365 services (especially Microsoft Teams, Teams Meetings & Devices and Security + Identity)

Willingness and desire to engage with both Business Decision Makers and IT Decision Makers.

Experience working with C-level executives in the enterprise

Ability to interpret, articulate, and present complex customer concepts to varying audiences such as BDM & ITDM.

Learn it all mentality with desire to better understand both business and technology solutions.

Experience in the K-12 or Higher Education vertical as an educator, administrator, or similar role.

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