Overview

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 looking for a Senior Principal Product Manager to help us in our goal to build intelligent security systems that meaningfully reduce defender toil, improve precision and speed, and unlock entirely new security workflows that were previously impossible. 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

• Leads cross‑divisional product strategy by synthesizing customer, market, and security signals—using AI‑driven trend analysis, sentiment evaluation, and telemetry to shape hypotheses, feature prioritization, and long‑range planning.
• Ensures product‑market fit and security alignment by validating customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements, partnering with engineering, design, and security SMEs to meet Microsoft’s security, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Drives AI‑powered experimentation and model optimization, designing complex A/B tests and leveraging telemetry to improve predictive accuracy, customer experience, and security posture across multiple feature areas.
• Champions secure‑by‑design principles, ensuring threat modeling, logging posture, permissions minimization, and security‑enabled‑by‑default configurations are embedded into product architecture and roadmap decisions.
• Guides product vision and strategy across divisional boundaries, translating advanced AI concepts into business value and aligning senior leadership, engineering, and customer stakeholders around secure, scalable, AI‑first solutions.
• Defines and operationalizes success metrics, including OKRs, KPIs, and security‑specific indicators (e.g., investigation‑ready logging, model precision/recall), ensuring responsible data collection and compliant telemetry pipelines.
• Leads secure product development and roadmap execution, balancing customer needs, technical tradeoffs, and long‑term investment priorities while ensuring AI‑driven features meet quality, ethical, and security standards.
• Orchestrates customer engagement and feedback loops, leveraging AI‑powered listening systems, direct interviews, and community programs to identify unmet needs, validate scenarios, and drive secure adoption across sectors.
• Influences go‑to‑market strategy by collaborating with Product Marketing and Business Planning to define release criteria—including SDL compliance—while shaping messaging, content, and customer‑readiness plans for secure AI‑driven features.
• Drives performance insights and lifecycle decisions, using AI analytics to monitor deployment health, identify deprecation opportunities, and guide cross‑team action that improves security, reliability, and customer trust.

Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.

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

• Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 8+ 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).
• 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Leadership and Influence: Leadership skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across a complex organization.
• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of threat detection and triage to incident response, hunting, secure design, compliance, and platform hardening.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in managing and leveraging user and business data for growth optimization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with various teams, including product, engineering, design, marketing, and data science, to drive growth.
• Stakeholder Management: Proficiency working with a diverse set of stakeholders across surfaces, mindsets and approaches, ranging from decades old properties with significant scale to new startup mode innovative AI nascent properties and bets.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to develop and execute a strategic vision for security initiatives, with a focus on innovation and growth.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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.