Director Product Marketing - Security Platform jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field AND 6+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, software development/support, analytics/BI system development, or artificial intelligence (AI).

• Deep understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native solutions, containerization, and Dev sec ops.

• Familiarity with at least one development language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C#, JavaScript, Scala).

• Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies required

• 6+ years of experience in customer-facing IT project delivery.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field AND 6+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, software development/support, analytics/BI system development, or artificial intelligence (AI).

• Proficiency in multiple development languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C#, JavaScript, Scala).

• 8+ years of experience in customer-facing IT project delivery.

• 8+ years of experience leading technical projects.

• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, security certifications).

Essential Skills:

• OpenAI/AI, Llama, Deepseek, Copilot including Github Copilot and Studio, and Cognitive services
• Microservices and containerization with Azure Kubernetes Services
• Advanced Analytics (Azure Synapse, Databricks, visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, QuickBI)
• NoSQL Databases including OSS (Cassandra, Mongo, HBase, etc.), Cosmos DB

• Understand customers’ overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation AI based architectures and solutions.

• Consumption (Cloud & Support) growth - Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.

• Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, be advisor for customer’s Azure AI Platform strategy, applications modernization through microservices on Azure Kubernetes services, AA/AI roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key analytics and AI technologies where appropriate (e.g. Azure ML, Azure AI Services including AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Copilot including Github Copilot and Studio, Cognitive Services, Spark, Data Lake, Azure Synapse, etc.)

• Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.

• Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP) and Value Based Delivery (VBD).

• Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.

• Collaborate with other Solution Engineers and other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure platform.

• Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community while educate customers on Azure platform.

• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities.

The Security Models Training team builds and operates the large-scale AI training and adaptation engines that power Microsoft Security products, turning cutting-edge research into dependable, production-ready capabilities. As a, you will lead end-to-end model development for security scenarios, including privacy-aware data curation, continual pretraining, task-focused fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and rigorous evaluation. You will drive training efficiency on distributed GPU systems, deepen model reasoning and tool-use skills, and embed responsible AI and compliance into every stage of the workflow. The role is hands-on and impact-focused, partnering closely with engineering and product to translate innovations into shipped experiences, designing objective benchmarks and quality gates, and mentoring scientists and engineers to scale results across globally distributed teams. You will combine strong coding and experimentation with a systems mindset to accelerate iteration cycles, improve throughput and reliability, and help shape the next generation of secure, trustworthy AI for our customers.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
• Proven track record training and shipping large language models or multimodal models for production scenarios, including continual pretraining and task specific adaptation.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch, with hands-on experience building and debugging large-scale training jobs.

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:

• Security domain experience in one or more areas: security operations, threat intelligence, malware analysis, vulnerability and posture management, anomaly detection, phishing and fraud detection, or cloud identity and access.
• Experience with distributed training and scaling techniques, for example DeepSpeed, FSDP, ZeRO, model and pipeline parallelism, mixed precision, and profiling.
• Experience with privacy preserving ML including differential privacy concepts, privacy risk assessment, and utility measurement on privatized data.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 21, 2025.

• Lead the full modeling lifecycle for security scenarios, from data ingestion and curation to training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Architect and optimize large-scale distributed training on GPU clusters, improving throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Design and implement privacy-preserving data workflows, including anonymization, templating, synthetic augmentation, and quantitative utility measurement.
• Develop and maintain fine-tuning and adaptation recipes for transformer models, including parameter-efficient methods and reinforcement learning from human or synthetic feedback.
• Establish objective benchmarks, metrics, and automated gates for accuracy, robustness, safety, and performance, enabling repeatable model shipping.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to productionize models, harden pipelines, and meet service-level objectives for latency, throughput, and availability.
• Mentor applied scientists and engineers, promote strong documentation and experiment hygiene, and foster a culture of rapid iteration grounded in responsible AI principles.
• Contribute to thought leadership by staying current with the latest AI advances and translating promising techniques into practical, measurable impact.

• Demonstrated technology-related sales or account management experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

• Cybersecurity industry experience.Microsoft security portfolio knowledge preferred

• Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to Enterprise customers.

• Proven sales and negotiation experience.

• Proven self-starter able to work towards delivery of goals as best practices are being developed

• Able to drive technical security conversations and conduct product/solution demonstrations.

• Solid understanding of security market and complete solutions

• Experience in managing channel sales
• Fluent spoken German and English

• You will engage in conversations with customers aligned to their industry and collaborate with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.
• You will leverage digital selling including digital signals to drive customer interests and identify new stakeholders at the customer.
• You will identify customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.
• You will accelerate opportunities from the Lead stage to closing the opportunity successfully in a strong seller to seller alignment with our key security partners.​
• You will apply role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.​
• You will collaborate with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identify new partners, develop joint proposals with partners and contribute to developing partner strategies.
• You will leverage and share competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
• You will lead conversations and set up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develop strategies for best practice sharing, initiate conversations with prospective customers/partners at events, act as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s).
• You will collaborate with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies and drive the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• OR 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
• 3+ years of software development/research experience utilizing knowledge of security/threat landscape Practical Windows internals knowledge (other OS experience may count).
• 1+ years of experience with Reverse Engineering: familiar with debuggers, disassemblers, protocols, file formats.

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:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• OR 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber-security, and/or anomaly detection.
• Offensive security research experience.
• Digital forensics skills Programming skills in C, C++, C# or willingness to learn Industry recognized author of security research papers, blogs, or books Low-level/security knowledge of other operating systems.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 21, 2025.

As a Security Researcher II, you will:

• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.
• Analyze detection and prevention gaps and understand root cause.
• Design and develop detection, prevention and disruption solutions to thwart advanced attacks.
• Synthesize in-field telemetry to judge the state of threat coverage and share insights.
• Identify trends, foresee landscape direction and propose enhancements to meet the needs.
• Collaborate across teams to address systemic security issues.
• Guide design of AI based solutions to tackle hard security problems.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in structuring and negotiating complex strategic alliances or acquisitions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 12+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR Master's/Advanced Degree in Business, Sciences, or related field AND 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in the technology industry OR in a technical role (e.g., IT, Engineering).
• Industry experience in driving Shopping or Payments Partnerships

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 28, 2025.

Partner & Customer Focus

• Leverages internal and external network to develop new strategic relationships. Develops relationships as a trusted advisor with key stakeholders. Works cross-functionally on internal strategy and works with v-teams to deliver alignment on objectives and outcomes.
• Articulates the value of Microsoft solutions, leveraging knowledge of customer and partner business priorities and/or drivers to influence decision making. Looks across opportunities to identify and address broad issues and trends.

Market Signal

• Develops processes and channels for information gathering and reporting, including synthesizing key insights and trends gathered from engagements for executive consumption.

Partnership Strategy

• Formulates partnership strategy for Shopping & Payments growth priorities with input from relevant stakeholders and creates business value propositions based on partner and company needs.
• Builds and utilizes internal & external network with a diverse set of stakeholders to identify and validate unique opportunities across business areas. Provides input into recommendations on partners.
• Positions the Microsoft value proposition versus competitors and works with stakeholders to influence the build/buy/partner decision to meet customer needs, leveraging knowledge of Microsoft and customer issues in conjunction with product/industry teams to establish a foundation for future opportunities in competitive situations through collaboration.
• Provides insight on industry and/or competitive trends and drives action based on insights.
• Drives deals to increase growth and achieve desired outcomes, anticipating potential issues. Encourages customers and partners to apply and amend a value proposition in order to create a partnership. Influences internal stakeholders and partners and promotes the value of opportunities.

Negotiation

• Represents Microsoft in key customer and partner interactions, and defines the deal structure for scalable and durable solutions to complex business opportunities.
• Leverages deep understanding of risks, rewards, and negotiation skills to manage broad engagements across all business functions.
• Provides breakthrough ideas and collaborates to close strategic or high-impact opportunities in order to scale the business (e.g., cross-company, cross-product deals).
• Provides coaching and support to less experienced colleagues as a go-to resource for negotiation.

Deal Management/Governance

• Develops plans for managing deals, including communications, and reporting with Microsoft stakeholders. Resolves blocking issues using known techniques.
• Collaborates with customers, partners, and Microsoft colleagues to develop post-deal governance and ensure design, communication, and alignment in creation and implementation of execution plans across a portfolio of deals within a particular domain.
• Ensures customers and partners are prepared for implementation.
• Captures and shares learnings to improve future pipeline and business value communication.

• Embodies our

Required Qualifications:

• Proven years years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• Expert in Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps OR Equivalent experience.
• Expert in Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview) OR competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information
• Several years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• Proven years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Proficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2.
• Proficiency in Danish is preferred.

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep expertise in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums