Principal Product Manager

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.

Did you know that Microsoft is one of the largest providers of security-as-a-service offerings? Microsoft Entra organization develops cloud based native network security and identity services that play a foundation role to protect user and resources (applications, devices and data) access in a mobile first cloud first world. Within Microsoft Entra, Entra Developer and App Platform Business Unit (BU) is looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our team and help us grow our suite of offerings and expand our business portfolio. Our BU’s mission is to create a thriving developer, app, and API platform that deliver world-class security, resilience, and capabilities. If you enjoy building innovative new products for developers and admins to easily add identity-driven experiences to any app or service, with simple, intuitive, and powerful app acquisition, management, automation, and governance experiences, this could be the role for you. As a senior member of the product executive team, you will manage a group of product managers to define and drive new network security and management capabilities that delight customers, partner closely with engineering to solve complex problems and deliver customer delightful capabilities, while working closely with finance and business planning to monetize offerings.

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.

Responsibilities

• Define the product and product capabilities in close partnership with customers every step of the way.
• Design and build product capabilities with engineering
• Engage customers to validate, design, refine product offering and enable customer adoption.
• Develop collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams as well as other other business units within Microsoft Security division and drive alignment.
• Work closely with product marketing and CxP to position offering and enable sales organization to pilot, deploy and operate offering
• Manage and grow a team of product managers
• Collaborate closely with other security controls both within and outside Microsoft with deep integrations

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management 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 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Advanced understanding of security or networking or identity technologies
• Experience interacting with enterprise customers, field and GTM teams
• Participation and/or leadership in industry-wide conversations on identity or security.

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