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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.

The security threat landscape is ever changing. As cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helps customers protect, detect, investigate, and automatically disrupt advanced attacks like Human Operated Ransomware and Business Email Compromise on their hybrid network of managed and unmanaged devices.  Our team brings deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and tradecraft to create the innovations necessary to uncover even the most well-funded attacker. Help our customers protect their organizations and provide visibility into the highest severity security threats in their environment. Tackling such a vast problem space requires experienced technical program managers to define and drive the key investments necessary to disrupt attackers. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading complex, cross-company initiatives across multiple teams and driving results.

We are searching for an experienced and motivated Principal Technical Program Manager to lead key initiatives in Microsoft Defender. You will be part of a talented and diverse team, responsible for delivering best in class Endpoint security products. We are an industry leading threat research lab that does in-depth research with threats and exploits to help keep our customers safe.

Who we are:

We are the Security Research team; we are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated tooling for securing enterprise data. Our mission is to help protect customers with truly innovative proactive protection, advise customers on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships.

As a research organization, it’s our job to stay one step ahead of malicious adversaries and predict the threats of the future. We work with partners across Microsoft to innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, attacker techniques, their tools and infrastructure.

We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We are motivated every day to empower others to do and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference for all of our customers, from end-users to Fortune 50 enterprises.

Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our diversity of backgrounds and experiences enables us to create innovative solutions for our customers. Our culture is collaborative and customer focused.

What we build:

We build innovative security and data compliance products. Our security products are brought together in the Microsoft 365 Defender suite. Defender enables Microsoft’s enterprise customers to detect, investigate, understand, and respond to advanced threats on their networks via a combination of behavioral sensors, cloud security analytics, and threat intelligence. As a research team, our insights and detections are what feed the protections across that suite.

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

• Creating, managing, and executing the program roadmap, working cross-company with other teams within the organization, such as Security Response, Threat Intelligence, and Product Engineering teams.

• Build strong partnerships with key stakeholders, such as business leaders, customers, partners, and internal teams, to drive success and achieve business objectives.

• Understand customer needs, develop strategic product plans and execute on product roadmaps to drive product innovation and customer satisfaction.

• Identify critical metrics and KPIs for program performance and track progress against goals.

• Be a champion for customer experience and improving their overall security posture.

• Work directly with senior leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new innovations, as well as to ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products.

• Create and maintain product requirements, functional specifications, and use cases for Microsoft Defender stack.

• Work with design, engineering, and data teams to define and execute the end-to-end product development process, including ideation, design, development, and delivery.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects

• 3+ years experience working with security products, preferably in the cloud or endpoint security domain.

• Track record of delivering results despite ambiguity, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate across a large organization, influencing many functions and teams. 

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.

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)

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 November 8, 2024.

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