Senior Product Manager – ISV Developer Architect

In today's digitally-driven world, our customers consider security one of their utmost concerns, facing an onslaught of digital threats, regulatory demands, and complex estates. At Microsoft Security, we're committed to creating a more secure world for everyone. Our vision is to transform the landscape of security, delivering comprehensive, user-friendly solutions from a single security cloud that offers end-to-end protection. Our mission within the Microsoft Security organization is to bolster Microsoft's broader goals by ensuring the protection of digital technology across platforms, devices, and clouds.

This mission extends to safeguarding both our customers' diverse environments and our internal infrastructure. 

Within the broader Security Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) team, our group is focused on forging key partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to bridge product gaps, enhance features, and drive forward innovation. We identify these collaborative opportunities by pinpointing industry leaders to partner with, aligning product functionality, co-launching cutting-edge technologies, and strategizing to broaden adoption. Our efforts are aimed at bolstering Microsoft's and our ISV partners' market standing with customers, competitors, and industry analysts alike. 

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Manager - ISV Developer Architect who is enthusiastic about cybersecurity and eager to develop how ISVs can seamlessly integrate their solutions with our expanding Microsoft Threat Protection suite, including Microsoft Security Exposure Management and the Unified Security Operations Platform with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. In this role, you will define our architectural direction to improve our products' extensibility and simplify the way ISVs build upon the Microsoft Threat Protection suite. 

Furthermore, our partnerships with ISVs are crucial in influencing our feature roadmap, ensuring that APIs are integral to feature releases. This focus minimizes the need for custom integrations, accelerates adoption, and supports scalability. 

If you're passionate about cybersecurity, fostering customer and partner relationships, and excel in architecture and product management, we invite you to contribute your skills and expertise to the Microsoft Security Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) team. 

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

We are looking for passionate people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.    

• Strategic Investment: Serve as an technical point of contact into the Microsoft Security engineering teams for select ISVs and be responsible for delivering architecture workshops and design sessions. Collaborate with cross-organization partners to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize investments in alignment with company objectives. Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). 
• Customer-Centric Insights: Proactively anticipate customer needs and market opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Identify patterns across a portfolio of feature areas and define the impact and prioritization of challenges. Leverage data-driven insights to guide decision-making. You will deliver product specific ‘Outside/In’ sessions through a formal feedback program, this provides our PM teams with an external perspective on their feature’s vision, specifications, and architecture – both for the ISV integrating and the customer using the relevant feature/integration. 
• Thought Leadership: Provide thought leadership within the team, addressing challenges and fostering a shared vision. Collaborate effectively to gain alignment and buy-in from group managers and other leaders. Rally the team around a common product direction.  Proactively alert working groups of opportunities and potential issues when thinking about how underlying computer science and engineering processes will play out across products and lifecycles.  
• End-to-End Vision: Collaborate closely with the Feature Product Managers, Business Development, and other customer focused Product Managers to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure suc