Overview

The Cloud & AI 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 and a theme of inspiring excellence. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Microsoft’s CISO Security Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to build the future of security tools to protect Microsoft’s products and customers. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about technology and security. This person will lead and drive programs and outcomes for the development of tools and services that surface risks, and enable remediation, resulting in clear reporting to the leadership team.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Responsibilities- Structure and lead strategic and operational level programs to accelerate growth; driving scalability and efficiency.
• Partner with relevant technical and business teams to design technical solutions across feature areas. Act as a technical advisor to identify risks and propose data-based mitigations.
• Manage success criteria and create relationships for implementing features for complex cross-functional projects. You’ll own the delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives that span multiple divisions with clarity and purpose.
• Deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation plan, and manage governance programs, track and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of program milestones.
• Drive continuous improvements to deliver efficiency and time to market improvement. You’ll also lead teams to partner with other departments to collect performance metrics, drive customer support, and lead direct customer engagements.
• Define program vision, strategy, and execution plans in collaboration with cloud service partner teams across Microsoft.
• Build and manage program-level dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), ensuring leadership visibility and data-driven decision-making.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of 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 $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

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.