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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. We are currently looking for a Principal Product Manager who can help accomplish the goals and initiative of the Microsoft Security organization.

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

+ Demonstrates and builds experiences across multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) across divisional boundaries.

+ Leads process defining problems and incubating solutions for a team or organization.

+ Coaches and mentors internal team to develop problem statements and forms hypotheses of new feature areas (e.g., product, service) across divisional boundaries to address highly complex customer needs and/or market opportunities; identifies dependencies of other feature areas.

+ Leverages AI to identify trends and patterns in large amounts of data through summarization and sentiment analysis to generate hypotheses, understand root causes of problems, and anticipate customer preferences.

+ Establishes clarity of patterns of root problem and how it relates with previously seen trends across customers, determines the customers/sectors impacted, foresees future opportunities, and uses research evidence to influence feature prioritization.

+ Ensures product-market fit and alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and the goals and strategy of Microsoft.

+ Collaborates with others (e.g., SWE, HWE Product Marketing, Design, Security Subject Matter Experts) to ensure that they can satisfy customer and security requirements.

+ Resolves alignment issues, contributes to portfolio level solutions, and drives cross-functional clarity with senior leadership.

+ Anticipates customers’ unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for enhancements or development and new products/services of multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) across divisional boundaries via quantitative (e.g., usage, telemetry) and qualitative analyses (e.g., customer usage, various listening systems, feedback channels of market and industry trends), analyzes security compliance, looks for patterns in the data across a portfolio, and scopes the impact and prioritization of a problem.

+ Creates and drives strategy for taking the multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries from private preview to public preview and then to general availability.

+ Begins to orchestrate the creation of customer support plans (e.g., frequently asked questions [FAQs], scripts), HyperCase, change management, and communication plans.

+ Creates drafts of product framing/vision memos, user stories, and scenarios through the use of Generative AI.

+ Communicates product strategy to internal and external customers and builds consensus through multiple methods (e.g., conference presentations, collaboration with partner organizations).

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

+ 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

Additional or preferred qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

+ 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).

+ 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 November 17, 2025

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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) .