Overview

We are seeking a skilled Senior Program Manager to join our team and help implement advanced Identity and Access Management standards. In this role, you will work on complex, high‑impact technical challenges in close collaboration with subject matter experts, engineers, and architects across Substrate, Microsoft 365, E+D, Entra, and Azure. These initiatives offer meaningful opportunities for domain knowledge growth and long‑term career progression.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talent who loves solving complex technical and business problems and working collaboratively across a global organization. This position will require an in-depth and hands on approach to problem solving. You should be comfortable mining data and telemetry and use data to support prioritization and decision making. You should be comfortable interacting with our internal & external customers to collect requirements as well as providing deployment guidance. Since teamwork is critical to our success, you should have great communication and teamwork skills and can work in a high-performance team with minimal supervision.

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- Drive building scalable, secure and highly-available Authentication and Authorization systems (services, SDKs) that support the whole family of M365 products (Outlook, Teams, Copilot).
• Translate business requirements into a strategy for systems solutions, measure success with data.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, create business plan for implementation and adoption.
• Provide feedback and influence feature teams how to best create and use data for their scenarios.
• Partner with other Product and Engineering Groups to drive execution and demonstrate end to end ownership of complex, cross-group projects to successful completion.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.
• Solid problem solving and analytical skills, with experience and passion for cloud-scale services.
• Experience with customer-driven engineering, unpacking customer/developer needs into system requirements and design.
• Experience with Software as a Service business models.
• Willingness to build deep understanding of Auth domain.
• Proven ability to develop product strategy and roadmap, and drive project execution.
• History of clearly articulating project status, blockers, and outstanding actions to all stakeholders, including senior management.
• Demonstrated success in creating an environment that fosters delivering results through collaboration in cross-organization projects with sense of personal ownership and accountability.
• History of defining necessary data in order to efficiently make data-driven decisions.
  Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ 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).
• 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Previous experience working in Security, Identity or AuthN/AuthZ domain.
• Previous experience and expertise in networking.
• Previous experience in software engineering or software architecture design.
• Graduate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field.
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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.