What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Program Manager, Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI position at Microsoft Innovation Center?
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 seeking a Principal Program Manager, Manager to join our team! This is a unique opportunity to guide the strategic direction and enablement of key Security products and programs across our sovereign clouds. You will be a senior advisor and technical leader on the team, continuously anticipating customer needs and opportunities and defining large scale and complex problem sets and solutions. Analytical problem solving, creativity, and cross-functional leadership are key. You are a cybersecurity practitioner, who can drive teams to develop the feature plans, roadmaps, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for products and services. You will provide expertise in customer experience and supportability, as well as technical documentation and communications. Your scope will span product development to security operations. You will be empowered to grow as a manager of managers and success in this role requires strong business acumen and analytical skills, as well as the ability to communicate vision and direction.
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.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
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 May 1, 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 .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#MSFTSecurity #CISOOrg
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 seeking a Principal Program Manager, Manager to join our team! This is a unique opportunity to guide the strategic direction and enablement of key Security products and programs across our sovereign clouds. You will be a senior advisor and technical leader on the team, continuously anticipating customer needs and opportunities and defining large scale and complex problem sets and solutions. Analytical problem solving, creativity, and cross-functional leadership are key. You are a cybersecurity practitioner, who can drive teams to develop the feature plans, roadmaps, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for products and services. You will provide expertise in customer experience and supportability, as well as technical documentation and communications. Your scope will span product development to security operations. You will be empowered to grow as a manager of managers and success in this role requires strong business acumen and analytical skills, as well as the ability to communicate vision and direction.
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide product lifecycle expertise and develop technical vision for security products, orchestrate and integrate efforts for feature development and implementation, and partner with engineering teams to produce product roadmaps.
- Leads team to identify new market opportunities and security solutions to address complex use cases and scenarios for our most demanding customers.
- Drive engagement with internal partners, stakeholders, and experts to align on priorities and delivery of key security programs and initiatives across divisions.
- Provides strategic direction to our unique sovereign business and engineering investments while guiding a team to develop against product delivery and customer excellence.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 6 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 4 years people management experience.
- 3 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
- Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
- Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
- Bachelor's Degree AND 10 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 4 years people management experience.
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1 year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
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 May 1, 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 .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#MSFTSecurity #CISOOrg
Salary : $137,600 - $267,000
