Senior Product Manager - Security

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager - Security to join the Azure Security Key Management team—the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud security. In this role, you’ll help deliver secure, compliant, and highly available key management solutions that protect customer data at scale. You’ll own product specs, drive cross-team execution, develop and tell the story of new features like External Key Management and services like Managed Hardware Security Modules (HSM). If you’re passionate about security, love solving complex problems, and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is your chance to make a global impact.

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

• Tell the story of Azure Key Management Services (Key Vault, Managed HSM, Cloud HSM) to customers and partners: craft clear narratives, customer-facing decks/demos, and connecting features to compliance, sovereignty, and customer workloads.

• Own and evolve specifications and Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for key management features, driving crisp requirements, decisions, and alignment across stakeholders.

• Drive cross‑team execution with Security, Identity, Storage, Software Development Kit (SDK), Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Portal; track integration issues to closure and unblock delivery.

• Run the business rhythm: maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), publish insights, and use data to guide priorities and trade‑offs.

• Write customer and operations (Ops) ready content (Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), documentation, guidance, samples) to ensure adoption and audit readiness.

Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Requiered Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience of demonstrated ownership of a medium‑to‑large product area.
• 2+ years of experience in cloud services, security, and compliance.

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:

• Preferred experience in cryptography, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), or key management systems.
• Able to clarify ambiguity and drive cross‑team decisions to delivery.
• Clear, executive‑ready communication; able to simplify complex technical topics for customers and leadership.
• Operational effectiveness running business reviews with KPIs; disciplined follow‑through.

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