Support Escalation Manager - Japanese Speaker

Sonata Software; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonata Software is seeking a Support Escalation Manager to investigate and resolve high-priority customer escalations beyond the standard support model. You will advocate for the customer while balancing policy and engaging executives, Legal, and PR as needed.

Role requires collaboration with Engineering, Supportability, and cross-functional teams to drive timely resolutions, document issues, and mentor junior staff while ensuring strict SLA adherence.

Qualifications

• Experience resolving complex customer escalations with empathy and diplomacy.
• Ability to communicate clearly with executives, Legal and PR teams.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and support to drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve customer escalations beyond standard support.
• Drive customer recovery and retention across products and services.
• Mentor teammates and document root causes for future prevention.
• Communicate case status to stakeholders and manage SLAs.
• Engage with Engineering for code/updates addressing critical issues.
• Identify recurring issues and escalate appropriately.

Skills

Customer empathy

Communication skills

Stakeholder communication

Escalation management

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Mentoring

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Microsoft product knowledge

Job description

Support Escalation Manager (Customer Advocate) investigates and resolves customer escalations that are escalated outside of the designed support model. Support Escalation Managers have a proven ability to handle some of the most challenging and sensitive customer situations by leveraging their strong communication skills and customer empathy. In addition, this individual will be expected to proactively develop strong relationships across the organization, working collaboratively with colleagues, team leaders, and senior stakeholders across the company. A successful advocate has clear and professional communication skills appropriate for stakeholders on the Executive team, Legal and PR teams.

Role Responsibilities:

• Customer recovery and problem resolution, with a focus on customer listening, empathy, and meaningful resolution that inspires customer loyalty. Drive positive results for customer & partner experience and customer retention
• Drive customer recovery across all products, services, and customer support scenarios such as M365, Azure, Windows, networking etc., Specialization may occur based on expertise and business need.
• Advocate for the best resolution possible for the customer while balancing Microsoft policy and interests through exception management.
• Communicating effectively case status and roadblocks to stakeholders.
• Mentoring and consultation with team members
• Documentation of customer issues for further analysis by the business.
• Identifying reoccurring or emerging issues and escalating to the appropriate channels
• For technical issues, engagement with Engineering with respect to the release of code/updates to address critical, systemic and emerging issues.
• Work closely with Supportability Program Managers, Technical Advisors, Escalation Engineers, and cross organizations to ensure that key support escalations are addressed.
• Adhere to strict SLAs
• Self-prioritize and manage case work
• Contribute towards the identification, documentation and elimination of root cause.
• Identify opportunities to provide better customer experience
• Triage and case assignment as needed
• Create documentation as necessary (for issues, product defect and how to articles, or general purposes such as process and documentation for the future, etc.)
• Engage escalation path for consultations and exception approvals per process
• Share knowledge and leverage the ideas of others to help the team grow and develop
• Other duties as assigned

Key Skills and personal attributes

• Passionate about resolving complex problems
• Passionate about Microsoft products/services
• A service customer advocate at heart; ability to empathize
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to self-direct work to meet deadlines
• Confident with their own judgement of a situation and able to articulate the reasoning behind it
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability research issues and documentation, leverage knowledge base, training and consultations to find solutions
• knowledge and experience in Microsoft Products such as M365, Azure etc.
• Knowledge of Operating Systems, Active Directory, Clustering and Networking an advantage

ABOUT SONATA SOFTWARE

Sonata Software, with over $1.2 Billion Revenue, is a leading AI-first Modernization Engineering company, powered by our unique PlatformationTM framework. Our 6400+ AI Engineers are helping enterprises transform from systems to intelligent business platforms leveraging partner ecosystem to drive speed, efficiency and growth. Our bouquet of Modernization Engineering Services with AI -first approach cuts across Cloud, Data, AI, Dynamics, Test Automation, and Managed Services.

Sonata’s AI-led modernization is enabled by a powerful suite of proprietary tools and assets. At the core is the Harmoni.AI Enterprise Platform, which includes Agent Bridge-a governance and observability framework; Agent Builder-a development toolkit for fungible agents integrated into enterprise systems; and the Agent Marketplace-an internal ecosystem for modular, reusable agents.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata Software has a strong global presence, including key regions US, UK, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, DACH (Germany/Switzerland) & Nordics (Finland). We are a trusted partner of Fortune 500 companies in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Healthcare and Lifesciences; Telecom, Media, and Technology; and Retail, Manufacturing and Distribution space.

Deep collaborations with partners like Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake strengthen our ability to deliver cutting-edge AI solutions. Our 30+years of partnership with Microsoft, and being part of the elite Microsoft Inner Circle, places us among the top 1% of global Microsoft partners. Sonata is now among the first companies to earn the Microsoft Frontier Partner Badge Also; Sonata Software is proud to achieve AWS Premier Tier Status in the AWS Partner Network.

Why join Sonata Software?

At Sonata, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you will not be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law.