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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 Product Managers passionate about building customer-centric security products and experiences. In this role, you will help define product vision and strategy, collaborate closely with engineering and design teams, engage directly with customers, and deliver solutions that solve complex security and identity challenges at enterprise scale. Our teams are building the next generation of security capabilities across identity, governance, access management, risk management, compliance, security operations, and emerging technologies. You will have the opportunity to shape products that serve millions of users worldwide while working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. 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. #MSFTSecurity, #MSFTSecurity Responsibilities • Define and drive product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for security and identity-related products and services. • Partner closely with engineering, design, research, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative customer-facing solutions. • Engage customers and partners to understand needs, validate scenarios, gather feedback, and inform product decisions. • Translate customer, market, and business opportunities into clear product requirements and execution plans. • Drive alignment across cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes. • Prioritize investments and features based on customer impact, business value, technical feasibility, and strategic goals. • Define success metrics, monitor product performance, and communicate results and impact to leadership. • Support go-to-market efforts by partnering with marketing, sales, and business teams to drive adoption and customer success. • Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges across security, identity, governance, compliance, access management, and related technology domains. • Foster a culture of innovation, customer obsession, accountability, and continuous improvement. Qualifications Required Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product management, program management, software development, or a related technical field • OR equivalent experience. • Experience delivering customer-facing products in partnership with engineering teams. • Strong product strategy, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Experience translating customer needs into product decisions and execution. • Knowledge of identity, security, governance, compliance, cloud security, or Microsoft Security/Entra technologies. • End-to-end UX experience • AI-native PM experience Product Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com 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.

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#MSFTSecurity, #MSFTSecurity
Define and drive product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for security and identity-related products and services.
Partner closely with engineering, design, research, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative customer-facing solutions.
Engage customers and partners to understand needs, validate scenarios, gather feedback, and inform product decisions.
Translate customer, market, and business opportunities into clear product requirements and execution plans.
Drive alignment across cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.
Prioritize investments and features based on customer impact, business value, technical feasibility, and strategic goals.
Define success metrics, monitor product performance, and communicate results and impact to leadership.
Support go-to-market efforts by partnering with marketing, sales, and business teams to drive adoption and customer success.
Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges across security, identity, governance, compliance, access management, and related technology domains.
Foster a culture of innovation, customer obsession, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product management, program management, software development, or a related technical field • OR equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

Experience delivering customer-facing products in partnership with engineering teams.
Strong product strategy, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience translating customer needs into product decisions and execution.
Knowledge of identity, security, governance, compliance, cloud security, or Microsoft Security/Entra technologies.
End-to-end UX experience
AI-native PM experience
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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