Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity Legal Team

Are you interested in helping a large, complex organization comprehensively implement emerging cybersecurity regulatory requirements in innovative and verifiable ways, while improving the efficiencies of engineering processes and security outcomes?

Microsoft’s Corporate and External Legal Affairs (CELA) division seeks an experienced Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity Legal Team to join the Cybersecurity Legal Team within the Customer Security and Trust (CST) organization. The work of the Cybersecurity Legal Team is focused on developing strategies to support cybersecurity regulatory compliance across the company, providing cybersecurity compliance counseling, leading strategic compliance initiatives, and shaping the development of cybersecurity laws worldwide. Cybersecurity and cyber threats are some of the greatest and highest impact risks to organizations and the tech industry today. The Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity Legal Team in this role should have experience with compliance functions and handling issues associated with managing regulations or standards, with the ability to drive implementation, monitoring, and reporting to meet complex legal requirements across multiple legal, engineering, and business stakeholders, coupled with ongoing corporate governance, coordination, and oversight by executives. The Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity Legal Team will work alongside attorneys to help plan and develop programs and systems, as well as identify and utilize appropriate tooling, to support cybersecurity corporate governance and enable engineering and business groups to fulfill cybersecurity regulatory obligations for the protection of customers and Microsoft. You must want to learn about and master Microsoft's technologies and find ways to apply them to advance and scale the work of Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Legal Team.

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

• Work with attorneys in the Cybersecurity Legal Team to drive and manage cybersecurity corporate governance, implementation of regulatory requirements, and ongoing compliance by collaborating with cross-company teams of legal, business, and engineering professionals to ensure compliance.
• Deep technical understanding of data security and governance architectures, solutions/technologies. 
• Drive and support the development and execution of legal compliance strategies to allow adoption at scale by: 
  • collecting innovative ideas and business needs;
  • managing program communities and stakeholders;
  • collaborating with internal stakeholders to help design and sustain compliance processes and infrastructure; and
  • supporting a rhythm of engagement that keeps Microsoft communities informed and engaged with our cybersecurity compliance and regulatory implementation work.
• Use data and insights, including with AI, to develop a program strategy and execute program plans through all stages of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing.
• Knowledge sharing internally and externally.  
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years of relevant professional experience that includes program management in a highly complex regulatory and scalable environment.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and administering cross-functional and/or cross-organization solutions. 
• Experience implementing and improving secure software development frameworks across multiple product releases and/or software development methodologies
• Experience with internal cybersecurity policies or external information technology standards.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Experience translating complex, technical information for a lay audience
• Product development experience focused on cybersecurity, privacy, online safety or other regulatory compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability and interest to work in ambiguous situations, across organizational boundaries, and navigate dynamic, matrixed organizations.
• Self-directing and adaptive, with an ability to build enthusiasm for organizational and cultural change and instruction.
• Demonstrated intrinsic commitment to Microsoft's core values of customer obsession, growth mindset, and advancing our diversity and inclusion

Technical Program Management IC5 - 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 December 9, 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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