Product Manager II

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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) Protect team is looking for a Product Manager II who understands security and customer trust are key to the success of our business and its continued growth. As our services grow in user base and product complexity, it is important for us to anticipate potential threats to our services as well as our customer’s data. The IAM Protect team is chartered to build products and policies to mitigate cyber threats and keep the attackers at bay.

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

• Develop a deep understanding of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution for Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure services.
• Use data to define and assert production service isolation.
• Work with our penetration testing, incident response teams, and business leaders to ensure that learnings from security incidents are prioritized and remediated.
• Collaborate closely with M365, Azure, and other security teams across Microsoft, as well as service teams to roll out the latest security policies with the right level of automation and enforcement.
• Define key success metrics and craft data-focused tracking of solution health and adoption.
• Report on project status in various reviews, partner briefings, & security conferences.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Passion for working on technical challenges and willingness to get your hands dirty to get the job done.
• Proven ability to influence and drive strategies across a large organization.
• Proven ability to set vision, deliver and communicate solutions to complex technical problems.
• A sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, craftsmanship & completeness.
• Experience working across organizations/divisions, and bringing people together to achieve the goal.
• 4+ years of experience shipping large scale software.
• Experience in Entra, Azure, IAM and secrets management space is a plus
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