Principal Product Manager

Data privacy has become a prominent concern in recent years. Governments globally are introducing new privacy laws, prompting companies to invest in data compliance to meet these requirements. This ongoing shift provides opportunities for organizations to develop solutions that address regulations and increase customer trust. 

The Microsoft Security Platform's Data Governance and Privacy team focuses on data privacy initiatives. Since 2018, the Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has provided internal products for Microsoft, running them at scale and with high availability. The team designs distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and DSR processing, and maintains privacy infrastructure that generates insights related to compliance and recommends actions for improvement. Drawing from this experience, the team is developing new data privacy products for use by Microsoft and its customers. Evolving requirements from both internal and external partners continue to create opportunities to work on projects with considerable scale, impact, and visibility. 

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:  

• Working with customers, partners and stakeholders to understand their data privacy requirements across different business verticals and develop, plan, execute and monitor roadmaps progress to achieve these requirements.  
• Provide subject matter expertise and lead technical and compliance conversations to prioritize, define, and validate data privacy features. 
• Define and communicate privacy requirements, designs, and guidelines. 
• Partner with teams across Microsoft to identify trends and achieve data privacy requirements as OneMicrosoft. 
• Ability to manage existing privacy tools/ service and support customers/ partners needs/ issues 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 
• 3+ years of experience leading product/program strategy and excecution.

• Exposure to large scale data estates and privacy operations environments.
• Familiarity with data privacy and regulatory policy such as GDPR or relavant.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Previous experience in data technology, risk management, or security field.

• Technical aptitude with a deep understanding of data and cloud services.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across diverse roles and communication styles, including customers, partners, engineers, and stakeholders. Skilled at clarifying complex topics and navigating ambiguous situations.
•  Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies to inform product requirements and strategic direction.

Other Requirement: 

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 upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,