Principal Product Manager

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.

The Identity and Network Access division is at the forefront of creating secure, seamless authentication and authorization experiences. We focus not only on enabling access but also on safeguarding it. These are critical in today’s digital age, where access to sensitive resources needs to be both secure and flexible. We deliver the industry leading Microsoft Entra family of platforms and products to enable all customers to protect their identities and govern their access across Microsoft and a thriving ecosystem of our partners.

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.

• Define the product and product capabilities in close partnership with customers every step of the way.
• Design and build product capabilities with engineering.
• Engage customers to validate, design, refine the product offering and enable customer adoption.
• Develop strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams and drive alignment.
• Work closely with product marketing to position offering and enable sales organization to pilot, deploy and operate offering 
  

Embody our culture and values 

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development 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: 

• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
  
• Understanding of Identity security technologies and privileged access management.
• Strong, demonstrated technical problem solving and communication skills.
• Experience interacting with enterprise customers and