Senior Program Manager, Security Risk & Compliance

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. 

Microsoft Security organization is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Security Risk & Compliance with a focus on risk governance and process optimization. This position is responsible for the management of enterprise-scale compliance, risk, and operational business process and programs. This role will drive us to increase our security posture through our risk management practices, and ensure we meet our regulatory compliance requirements for security across the Microsoft enterprise.

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

• Co-ownership and management of risk governance forum, collaborating with key stakeholders, and facilitating critical conversations allowing for actionable path forward on mitigation strategies.
• Planning, implementing, and overseeing execution of risk management processes, including optimization of those processes. Improving governance practices for risk and compliance security practices while enabling product teams to move with pace and quality.
• Coordinating across the Microsoft enterprise with other teams on the implementation of risk management and compliance programs, including with other program leaders.
• Scaling as-is processes for increased coverage, quality, speed, and output by identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiency and how technology (e.g., generative AI) can be used to improve our services.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 4+ years work experience in program management, risk management, process management, process improvement
  • OR equivalent 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

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