Senior Product Manager

Microsoft runs on Trust. Join our amazing team in Microsoft 365 and help us build world class products that deserve our customers’ trust.  Help us demonstrate our commitment to delivering a world class product through external validation and customer interaction.

You will bring your program management, technical acumen, and deep compliance knowledge to execute external assessments in our commercial audit space against global standards such as SOC and ISO, and customer initiated engagements in our Right-To-Audit program.  

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with meticulous attention to detail who has the technical depth required to effectively communicate with Subject Matter Experts from Compliance, Security, Engineering, Operations, Support, and other disciplines. 

As a member of the M365 International Audit team, your primary focus will be successfully maintaining our current compliance certifications and driving new initiatives to further expand our compliance portfolio according to business and customers’ needs.  In addition also provides program management for the Microsoft Teams portfolio of service as a part of M365. 

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

• Represent Microsoft’s controls over regulatory requirements to external vendors, assessors, external customers and regulatory bodies.
• Select, manage, and lead discussions with external regulators to ensure that Compliance obligations are achievable in a fast-paced cloud computing environment.
• Help identify and evolve an audit strategy to ensure the Compliance Program keeps pace with O365’s rapid growth while reducing the impact on operational teams.
• Provide subject matter expertise to internal engineering groups and product teams with understanding of various Compliance obligations, and working with them for ongoing operations and to develop roadmaps to achieve new/changing Compliance requirements.
• Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Direct experience with one or more security, compliance and regulatory frameworks- including SSAE/SOC 1 and 2 (preferred), ISO 27001, Privacy, NIST certification and accreditation processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with IT operations techniques and diverse IT architectures; specific knowledge of hyper-scale cloud products is a plus  
• Ability to collaborate with partners, deliver cross-group projects, and drive change 
• Solid written/verbal communication and ability to clearly articulate ideas for executive level consumption as well as technical staff consumption    
• Solid technical problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to interview engineers on technical subject matter.   
• Experience with data mining, data analysis, and assembling results from multiple diverse data sources into a coherent whole and answer specific questions with the data.