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Posted date: Aug 06, 2025
Category: Product Management
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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, 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
Security represents one of 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 aim to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them through end-to-end, simplified solutions.
The Assume Breach team within Microsoft 365 plays a pivotal role in proactively identifying and mitigating threats across Microsoft’s platforms.
We are looking for a Principal Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives that strengthen our security posture and drive innovation in threat detection and response.
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.
Lead cross-functional programs focused on proactive threat identification, containment, and mitigation across Microsoft 365 services.Partner with threat intelligence, engineering, and product teams to develop scalable solutions that anticipate attacker behavior and reduce risk.Drive the development and adoption of graph-based and analytical techniques to surface insights from massive volumes of security data.Define and execute program roadmaps aligned with Microsoft’s security strategy and customer needs.Champion a culture of Assume Breach readiness by embedding security-first thinking into product development and operations.Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities, dependencies, and execution plans.Communicate program status, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership and key stakeholders.Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualificationsBachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.7+ years of experience in program management, product management, or technical leadership roles.6+ years experience delivering complex, cross-team programs in security, cloud services, or enterprise software.4+ yearsexperience of threat modeling, incident response, and security operations.4+ years Experience working with large-scale data systems and analytical frameworks.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 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.2+ experience in Assume Breach methodologies or red/blue team operations.Familiarity with Microsoft 365 architecture and security controls.Background in data science, graph analytics, or machine learning applied to security.
Product 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 26, 2025
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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