Principal Customer Engineer (6333)

RUN STUDIOS LLC•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

RUN Studios and our client partner, a major technology company, are seeking a highly motivated Principal Customer Engineer to support customers who are adopting Microsoft’s Teams Platform and Teams Events solutions. In this role, you will partner closely with organizations to help them deliver impactful, engaging experiences for employees, customers, and partners. As a Principal Customer Engineer, you will guide customers in realizing meaningful outcomes from their investments in workplace technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Teams Live Events, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft Copilot.

Requirements

Successful track-record of cross-functional collaboration with contributors and stakeholders across multiple seniority levels.
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrated achievement within a results-driven, highly ambiguous, and dynamic environment.
Ability to communicate technical concepts in simple ways to broad audiences.
Experience in all aspects of virtual and hybrid event production.
Knowledge or experience with Microsoft Teams.
Experience in the role of technical director / producer in support of introductory presentations, demonstrations, technical consulting, virtual event production, and hybrid event production using Microsoft Teams platform.
Strong capacity for leading change, dealing with ambiguity, and providing creative solutions.
Proficient in livestreaming software and technology including OBS, vMix, NewTek NDI, RTMP, or equivalent software.
Proficient with audio/video hardware including cameras, microphones, lighting, video capture devices, mixers, etc.
Knowledge of corporate networks, VPN, and security.
Access to reliable high-speed internet for remote event production.
Experience with video and audio routing via hardware and software controls.
Experience with supporting Windows and Mac OS operating systems specifically audio and video hardware and associated drivers.

Responsibilities

Enables customers to achieve their desired outcomes based on their investments in workplace technologies.
Manages customer executive relationships through project reviews, strategic escalations, and administration of project commitments.
Clarifies definition of customer conditions of success and proposes strategies to address risks and concerns with meeting customer condition of success resulting in improved experience, value realization, and acceleration of customer desired outcomes.
Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations (e.g., by application of technical capabilities).
Gathers insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, engagement experience), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to business outcomes.
Develops and expands impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, specialists, event decision makers, and business stakeholders.
Proactively uses knowledge of relevant products, services, and value propositions in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs.
Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners.