At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a fast-growing, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. 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. SME&C 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 SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
Within SME&C, our Customer Success organization empowers Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners to build durable, AI-first support practices through our Unified for Partners (UFP) Practice Builders. As a Director, Partner Success (also referred to as the Support PSM Manager), you will lead a team of Support Partner Success Managers (PSMs) who help top partners mature their support capabilities and become self-sufficient—reducing escalations to Microsoft and delivering the best experience and fastest resolution for customers.
You will build, coach, and develop a high-performing team of delivery-oriented specialists, and set the standard for how your team runs the Support Capability Benchmark, co-authors joint execution plans with Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs) and Service Managers, and delivers technical briefings, success programs, and operational intellectual property (IP). You will own your team’s collective outcomes—chief among them the reduction of partner escalation rates to Microsoft—and represent the Support practice-building motion to senior Microsoft and partner stakeholders. You are accountable for landing a consistent, high-quality delivery model across your portfolio and for orchestrating with Azure and AI Business Solutions (ABS) Partner Success, Cloud Solution Architects, Service Managers, and Partner Development Managers.
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.
Responsibilities
People Leadership
People management. Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Build, lead, and develop a team of Support Partner Success Managers—attracting, hiring, onboarding, coaching, and retaining top delivery talent.
Coach and unblock. Set clear expectations, give timely feedback, and remove blockers so your team can deliver partner outcomes.
Delivery Excellence & Standards
Set the standard. Set the standard for how your team runs the Support Capability Benchmark, co-authors partner-endorsed execution plans, and delivers technical briefings, success programs, and operational IP.
Ensure consistency. Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across the portfolio and share reusable best practices across the team.
Outcomes & Accountability
Own the outcomes. Own your team’s collective outcomes, most important among them the reduction of partner escalation rates to Microsoft and improvement in case deflection and self-resolution.
Manage performance. Track team performance against plans and outcomes and institute improvement plans where needed.
Stakeholder Leadership & Orchestration
Represent the motion. Represent the Support practice-building motion to senior Microsoft and partner leaders and participate in Partner Success Delivery Reviews (PSDRs) with sponsoring executives.
Orchestrate across teams. Orchestrate across Azure and ABS Partner Success, Customer Success Account Managers, Cloud Solution Architects, Service Managers, and Partner Development Managers to deliver a unified partner experience.
Portfolio Planning
Plan coverage. Contribute to partner coverage and prioritization decisions and align team capacity to the highest-impact partners.
Inform the offer. Use insights from benchmarks and delivery to inform the evolution of the Support practice-building offer.
Other
Embody our Culture and Values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years experience in experience in sales, industry channel sales, and industry sales
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of people management experience include leading teams or people through formal management or team/technical leadership.
- Experience leading customer success, support delivery, or partner-facing delivery teams at scale.
- Experience with the CSP / partner ecosystem and with maturing partner or customer support capabilities.
- Technical breadth across Azure, Microsoft 365, and identity and security.
- Experience with proactive services, maturity models, and support operations metrics such as escalation rate, case deflection, and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
Partner Success M5 - 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
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field and 9+ years experience in sales, industry channel sales, and industry sales OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of people management experience (formal management or team/technical leadership).
- Experience leading customer success, support delivery, or partner-facing delivery teams at scale.
- Experience with the CSP / partner ecosystem and maturing partner or customer support capabilities.
- Technical breadth across Azure, Microsoft 365, and identity and security.
- Experience with proactive services, maturity models, and support operations metrics such as escalation rate, case deflection, and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
Microsoft Insights
What We Do
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.
