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.
As companies embark on their digital transformations, they rely on Microsoft’s identity cloud services to give them secure, convenient, manageable, digital relationships with employees, customers, and business partners. Tens of thousands of organizations and more than 1 billion end users connect using Microsoft identity services to over 1 million applications each month. It is our job to keep their personal and professional data safe and secure and to keep innovating in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
We are looking to hire a Principal Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you will imagine, define, and drive delivery of features, services or tools that help improve our identity platform and experiences for companies, end users, and developers. You will collaborate with engineering and other disciplines to define and deliver modern, standards-based solutions with user friendly experiences. You will work closely with customers to deeply understand their needs and use insights to prioritize and design features for the broader identity ecosystem. As you lead the team through technical and creative problem solving it’s essential that you bring your authentic self and a growth mindset. If you love a technical or design challenge, we’ve got plenty, but you don’t have to be an identity expert.
The Microsoft Identity team is a fun, inclusive community committed to working closely with customers and each other. We pride ourselves on building meaningful relationships with our customers so we can deeply understand their requirements and deliver solutions that satisfy their needs and exceed their expectations. We build these same relationships within our team and are looking for people who are eager to collaborate.
If that sounds like the right environment for you, please join us!.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Product Manager for Identity Protection, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and launching identity risk detections and scalable protections that protect customers from compromise. Your responsibilities will include:
Product definition and customer engagement
Synthesize customer feedback into product development insights and address unmet customer needs.
Develop a product roadmap for long-term complex solutions that surpasses customer needs.
Collaborate with teams of architects and engineers to deliver solutions aligned with product strategy. Proactively remove blockers and provide engineering team with necessary resources to address issues.
Determine economic and technological impact of customer scenarios, issues, and use of Microsoft products to drive enhancement of products and services.
Product/feature advocacy and storytelling
Craft high-impact storytelling that aligns with customer scenarios and positions Microsoft products within the competitive landscape. Set storyline for alignment at external events to establish Microsoft as an industry leader.
Evaluate new product/platform offerings for feasibility, applicability, and market readiness, and oversee development of relevant insights and enablement outputs to share with ecosystem teams. Collaborate with field/sales organizations to understand and address customer pain points.
Incorporate feedback and market analyses to provide perspective and prioritize strategy agility to anticipate industry changes.
Serve as a senior point of escalation for industry standards and capabilities.
Other
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience
3+ years' 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 Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
Experience with applying data science and machine learning concepts OR risk detection engineering.
Deep understanding of threat vectors and patterns of malicious activity in the identity domain
Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and prioritize tasks effectively.
Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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
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