Microsoft Principal Product Manager 

United States, Washington 

653363397

As an MDC- CAT

Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity domains in Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud services.
• Knowledge of AI and machine learning technologies and their application in customer success.
• Knowledge of DevOps security (including GitHub and Azure ADO) and API Security.
• Knowledge of Azure Infrastructure, Azure network security, Log Analytics and Azure Logic Apps.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Defender for Cloud across all plans.

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:

• Product/program management experience working with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to understand business objectives and focus on delivering success.
• Ability to build deep technical relationships with internal teams and customers.
• Work on early Product development cycle across Engineering and Business stakeholders.
• Ability to influence and advocate for customer needs and requirements to be met by features.
• Ability to build trust with internal and external partners through quality delivery and integrity.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing business needs.

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 January 23, 2025.

The Principal Product Manager’s specific responsibilities include:

• Domain Area Knowledge: 300 and 400 level proficiency in the following Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans: Threat Protection for AI workloads (Azure Open AI Service, Azure Machine Learning, Amazon Bedrock), Defender CSPM (including DevOps Security), Defender for APIs, and Multicloud. Possess a 200-level understanding of Defender for Cloud (all-up plans), good understanding of Defender for Cloud integration with Defender XDR solution. Serve as a trusted advisor to customers and product engineering teams. Utilize your cloud security knowledge to enhance our Microsoft Defender security products and services, assisting customers in achieving and maintaining security by deploying our solutions effectively.
• Advocate for our customers: Capture the voice of the customers and synthesize quantitative and qualitative feedback into actionable recommendations in a prioritized manner. Relentlessly champion customer voice to engineering teams and be a change agent to develop innovative ways to handle customer scenarios and resolve complex issues.
• Practice Microsoft Culture: Growth mindset, One Microsoft, and Customer Obsessed, and Diverse and inclusive. Collaborate and work with a global high performing team to help customers learn and deploy our Defender for Cloud security product, to educate Microsoft field and third-party partners, and identify technical blockers and gather feature requests and share them with product teams.
• Drive Objectives and Key Results. Own and drive key results to enable the services to achieve business objectives. Collaborate with stakeholders to define product specific business objectives and rationalize, prioritize, and execute tasks to successfully achieve goals.
• Effectively communicate with quantitative and qualitative data to stakeholders across Microsoft in business reviews.
• Partner Development: Collaborate across Security CxE, Microsoft Field cybersecurity and third-party Partners in supporting skills transfers across our Microsoft Partners ecosystem to empower our customers, and drive scalability. Quality documentation and effectively educate others about Cloud Security solutions both in internal and external events (Executive Briefing Center – EBC, Webinars, conferences).
• Develop and maintain relationships with key prospects at C-Level, as well as internal stakeholders, to support growth of platform across key customer segments.
• Embody our and