Principal Product Management Manager

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Are you a strong, experienced, and highly motivated leader who wants to drive the security detection strategy for the Azure Cloud? If so, you might be the perfect fit for the Principal Product Management Manager role at Microsoft’s Azure Security organization. The Azure Security organization is responsible for securing the entire Azure stack and protecting our customers. We offer cloud-scale services and monitoring agents to ensure the platform’s security. As cyber threats evolve, we develop advanced detection capabilities to identify, investigate, and automatically neutralize sophisticated attacks and data breaches.

We are looking for a Principal Product Management Manager who is passionate about building and nurturing a highly talented group of Security Product Managers and Security Analysts to enable them to build defenses against large-scale cyber-attacks. Join our team and be at the forefront of securing one of the world’s largest cloud platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Your contributions will make a significant impact on the security of Azure and its customers, helping to protect critical data and infrastructure from evolving cyber threats.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of outstanding product managers and security Analysts.
• Collaborate with Security Research and Engineering teams to build detection strategies to protect Azure.
• Develop detections to identify threat actor activities and evict them from the environment before they cause damage to the Azure platform.
• Collaborate with Security teams across Microsoft to deliver excellence through strategy, execution, and delivery.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product or program management
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of people management experience. 
• 2+ years of experience in security.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Solid technical knowledge of cloud security solutions for large-scale environments

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Written and verbal communication/presentation skills at all levels of the organization, technical and non‐technical.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams to deliver high-impact results.
• Experience as a key contributor towards designing, shipping, and operating large-scale, cloud services.
• Experience in building and growing diverse teams with strong people development skills.
• Project management, leadership, and cross‐group collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to prioritize, plan, and execute.

Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 6, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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