Customer Success Account Management: Student Worker Opportunities

Location: Switzerland, Zürich, Zürich Department: Customer Success Account Mgmt

Overview

Start Date: February 2027 - August 2027

Type of Employment: 60% Paid Internship

Duration: 6 months

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns and Student Workers from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Customer Success Account Management Intern, you will develop, maintain, and build upon foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery. This opportunity will allow you to guide and lead conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives; lead the execution of program planning and customer-facing program reviews.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

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

Learn customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement models. Supports foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders and with guidance from more experienced colleagues. Manages customer relationships beyond the current Unified Support contract owners with a focus on understanding business objectives and roadmaps.

Learns how to identify, navigate, and communicate with key customer technical stakeholders at different levels. Learns how to guide and lead conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives by leveraging their investment in Microsoft. Learns how to map internal roles to customer priorities to action the needs of customers. Learns how to develop key internal stakeholder relationships.

Grows technical aptitude and industry awareness to translate customer interactions into customer business impact and value.

Listens to conversations with customers and begins to align objectives with the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. Understands the organizational and customer success strategy. Understands Microsoft technology and services.

Supports the delivery of program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and engagement with key technical stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's , Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and must be in the final year of study
• Must be available to do an internship in February 2027 until August 2027
• Must be legally authorized to work in Switzerland? (Legally authorized = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
• Fluency in English and German

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Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• Passion for technology and customer obsessed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
• Strong Desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling.• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills

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.