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Microsoft is seeking a Technical Program Manager - Cyber Intelligence Liaison to join our Security team. 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.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is a cyber threat actor focused intelligence team that discovers, tracks and disrupts threats to protect Microsoft and its customers and partners. MSTIC’s vision is to create a safer world through the creation and dissemination of accurate, timely, and actionable cyber threat actor intelligence. MSTIC is seeking a skilled ‘Cyber Threat Intelligence Liasison’ to join our team to build productive partnerships with North American organizations that share our vision. The ideal candidate will deliver productive partnerships that accelerate both parties’ ability to discover and counter serious cyber threats. The candidate will also have a solid knowledge of geopolitical issues and cyber threats and will be able to smoothly and convincingly motivate partners to action and cement Microsoft’s reputation as an intelligence partner with unique insight into 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.

Responsibilities

Strategic Relationship Managment

• Build enduring relationships with government and industry partners that deliver productive exchanges of cyber threat intelligence.

• Enhance Microsoft reputation as cyber threat intelligence producer by representing MSTIC in cybersecurity briefings, conferences, workshops, and policy discussions.

• Facilitate great practitioner-level collaboration with partner organizations that result in mutual benefit for all parties.

• Democratize access to partnerships across the threat intelligence team by building a knowledge base of partner strengths and interests.

• Support Microsoft’s Government Affairs team by providing cyber threat intelligence context to policy issues.

• Identifies highly complex opportunities and gaps across divisional boundaries including comparison of various quality and performance metrics to various solutions. May define and lead customer engagements to solicit feedback and understand their experiences with Microsoft’s products and services.

• Coaches internal team to address highly complex business, program, and customer needs, and/or market opportunities; identifies all dependencies.

• Defines the program(s) goals and prioritization for the areas they own across divisional boundaries. Translates the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables based on data insights. Provides solutions or recommendations to key stakeholders to make complex decisions based on data-driven identified risks and tradeoffs.

• Mentors others on how to define success and performance metrics. Deeply understands the return on investment and presents it to senior leadership.

• Creates relationships to drive orchestration and integration efforts for highly complex cross functional projects with internal teams and external partners. Influences leadership on objectives. Collaborates and coordinates across the business to ensure alignment and gain buy in, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible.

• Provides expertise to partner with others (e.g., Engineering, Data Science, Threat analysts) to derive and report on performance metrics (e.g., Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), monitor and report on progress (e.g., business reviews), and derive deep insights that lead to productive courses of action.

• Acts as a technical advisor to educate and evangelize across divisional boundaries they work on with customers via meetings, presentations, and other forums. Defines and leads direct customer (internal and/or external) engagements to solicit feedback and understand their experiences across divisional boundaries.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• Proven experience in partnership-building cybersecurity, intelligence, international relations, diplomatic, or similar role.

• Effective understanding of nation-state and sophisticated criminal cyber threats. • Good understanding of cyber-attack terminology and preferably some technical experience in working cyber investigations.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global team environment.

Technical Program 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 June 1, 2024.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .