Process Optimization Manager

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.

The Business Transformation & Strategic Programs (BTSP) organization is hiring aProcess Optimization Manager to lead the identification, design, and deployment of Agentic AIdriven process improvements across Microsoft's internal Customer Success and Support operations. This role focuses on embedding AI agents into operational workflows to reduce manual effort, improve quality and consistency, accelerate cycle time, and enhance both customer and employee experience, while operating within Microsoft's Responsible AI, security, and governance standards.

This role sits at the intersection of enterprise transformation, process management, and applied AI. The ideal candidate combines strong business operations acumen with handson experience building AIenabled automation and agentic solutions, translating complex operational challenges into durable, scalable, and measurable improvements.

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.

* Identify and prioritize Customer Success & Support processes with the highest potential for improvement through AIdriven and agentic automation, using data, operational insight, and business impact analysis.
* Design, build, and deploy Agentic AI solutions that optimize endtoend workflows, embedding AI agents into operational processes to reduce manual effort, handoffs, cycle time, and operational friction.
* Engineer AIenabled process solutions, including agent orchestration, automation, evaluation, and exception handling, ensuring solutions are productionready and scalable.
* Partner crossfunctionally with Customer Success, Support Engineering, Data, Security, Privacy, and Governance teams to deliver AI solutions into production environments.
* Define success metrics and measure impact of AIdriven process improvements, leveraging telemetry, performance data, and feedback loops to continuously optimize outcomes.
* Ensure Responsible AI implementation, including alignment with Microsoft AI, privacy, and security standards, with appropriate humanintheloop controls, escalation paths, and governance.
* Communicate clearly and influence effectively across organizations, translating complex operational challenges and AI solutions into actionable insights and decisions.
* Develop reusable patterns, playbooks, and best practices to support BT&SP's broader adoption of agentbased process transformation.

Required Qualifications:

Process Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 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 $100,800 - $168,000 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.

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