Overview

The Microsoft Specialized Clouds organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry are securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments. We foster a growth mindset and inspire excellence, empowering teams to innovate and bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The ILDC team is expanding and looking to hire Security Product Managers . This role involves supporting strategic security initiatives by understanding multifaceted requirements, analyzing complex security issues, driving risk-informed solutions, and enabling cross-functional alignment across product, security research, and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines technical expertise, cybersecurity savviness, regulatory awareness, and product management skills to support AI scale projects, identify high-impact vulnerabilities, help design secure solutions, and support security reviews.

Responsibilities:

Define vision and long-term strategy for security assurance programs or features, aligning with Microsoft’s top-level objectives.

Analyze systemic security issues, prioritize risks, manage risk dependencies, and influence engineering efforts.

Drive alignment across security research/ engineering, compliance, and product teams; lead programs that span multiple divisions or security features across the platform.

Stay informed on industry trends, emerging threats, and best practices in security architecture to continuously improve security measures.

Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to report progress, address concerns, and provide strategic security insights.

Contribute to internal and external security communities to promote best practices.

Qualifications:

• B.Sc. in software engineering, or equivalent education.

• 2+ years of technical experience.

• Background in Security and Cloud and an understanding of current AI concepts and tools. Familiarity with the Microsoft security and AI stacks is a plus.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Proven problem-solving skills.

• Data driven and curious, with a passion for ongoing learning, experimenting, and improving.

• Autonomous and capable of navigating in an ambiguous environment.

Other qualifications:

Senior:

• 4 years of product management experience, including over 2 years leading security strategy for technology products alongside technical roles.

• Familiarity with multi-dimensional security principles and products across hardware, firmware, software, and cloud environments. Knowledge of security regulations is advantageous.

• Experience with defining and tracking OKRs and KPIs to measure program performance is a plus.

PM2:

• Customer-facing experience, product management a plus.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.