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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.

Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA) Team is looking to hire a Principal Product Manager, Product Liaison to join their team. The IDNA Team play a central part of the everyday technology experience and safeguards over a billion active users every month. It enables the identity experience that is essential for almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office, from Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a thriving business, and we have a huge role in our mission to secure the world's most precious assets and most visited services. Our team is comprised of widely talented and diverse individuals with interesting backgrounds and provocative passions. It’s an environment where creativity and innovation thrive, teamwork is highly valued and where you can solve hard problems through collaboration with a wide range of peers and partners.   

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

• Collaborative guidance on product team strategy in shaping analyst inquiries, briefings, and surveys

• Joint ownership of successful outcomes in analyst engagements with marketing and analyst relations

• Overall care for product truth in product communications within the analyst space

• Optimization of product value propositions within bounds of acceptable communications

• Sourcing of subject matter expertise from within the product group to ensure accurate timely communication

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirement:

• 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of the Entra product suite

• Broad understanding of enterprise IT, converged infrastructure, GenAI and cybersecurity

• Knowledge of vendors, industry trends, architectures and/or market forces in Enterprise and/or Customer IAM.

• 5+ years experience in the identity and Access Management (IAM) industry or Knowledge of adjacent fields including the intersectionality of additional identity fields such as Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), Zero Trust Native Apps (ZTNA), Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM) or Privileged Access Management (PAM).

• Experience in completing vendor surveys such as a Gartner magic quadrant or a Forrester Wave or similar

• Demonstrated ability to relate and convey integrated product scenarios and strategy.

• Strategic analysis skills reflected in the ability to analyze and triangulate analyst, competitor, customer and product team insights

• 5+ years Program leadership experience – responsible for leading cross team internal engagements resulting in the completion of key deliverables such as Magic Quadrant (MQ) surveys and others.

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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 May 16, 2024.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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