Sr. Principal Product Manager - Security

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 a Senior Principal Product Manager to help us in our goal to build intelligent security systems that meaningfully reduce defender toil, improve precision and speed, and unlock entirely new security workflows that were previously impossible.  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.

• Leads cross‑divisional product strategy by synthesizing customer, market, and security signals—using AI‑driven trend analysis, sentiment evaluation, and telemetry to shape hypotheses, feature prioritization, and long‑range planning.
• Ensures product‑market fit and security alignment by validating customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements, partnering with engineering, design, and security SMEs to meet Microsoft’s security, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Drives AI‑powered experimentation and model optimization, designing complex A/B tests and leveraging telemetry to improve predictive accuracy, customer experience, and security posture across multiple feature areas.
• Champions secure‑by‑design principles, ensuring threat modeling, logging posture, permissions minimization, and security‑enabled‑by‑default configurations are embedded into product architecture and roadmap decisions.
• Guides product vision and strategy across divisional boundaries, translating advanced AI concepts into business value and aligning senior leadership, engineering, and customer stakeholders around secure, scalable, AI‑first solutions.
• Defines and operationalizes success metrics, including OKRs, KPIs, and security‑specific indicators (e.g., investigation‑ready logging, model precision/recall), ensuring responsible data collection and compliant telemetry pipelines.
• Leads secure product development and roadmap execution, balancing customer needs, technical tradeoffs, and long‑term investment priorities while ensuring AI‑driven features meet quality, ethical, and security standards.
• Orchestrates customer engagement and feedback loops, leveraging AI‑powered listening systems, direct interviews, and community programs to identify unmet needs, validate scenarios, and drive secure adoption across sectors.
• Influences go‑to‑market strategy by collaborating with Product Marketing and Business Planning to define release criteria—including SDL compliance—while shaping messaging, content, and customer‑readiness plans for secure AI‑driven features.
• Drives performance insights and lifecycle decisions, using AI analytics to monitor deployment health, identify deprecation opportunities, and guide cross‑team action that improves security, reliability, and customer trust.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 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 b