Learning & Growth Leader - Culture & Employee Experience, Microsoft

Microsoft Security is one of the world's largest security organizations — spanning endpoint, identity, cloud, and data security — and one of Microsoft's fastest-growing businesses. Its engineers work at one of the most consequential intersections in technology — where AI, adversarial pressure, and organizational scale meet in real time. Staying effective in that environment requires more than a training catalog. It requires a learning ecosystem: technical programs deep enough to matter, leadership development that changes behavior, and communities where knowledge compounds peer to peer. 

As part of the Executive Office of the EVP of Microsoft Security, the Learning & Growth Leader is responsible for building the learning ecosystem and learning culture for Security Engineering. The role owns distinct capability dimensions including technical fluency, systems thinking, and agile leadership and the community infrastructure that makes growth self-sustaining long after any single program ends.

Build and Run Security Learning Programs 

• Design and deliver Security Learning — a live and on-demand curriculum spanning technical fluency, AI-augmented security practice, and learning experiences relevant to Microsoft Security's product surface. 

• Ensure learning is directly tied to what engineers face in their day-to-day work: practical, applicable, and immediately useful. 

• Build feedback loops from learner experience and manager signal back into curriculum design and prioritization. 

• Develop the systems thinking track for senior ICs and architects, and the agile leadership track for engineering managers — considering this paths from the perspective of a capability architect.  

Develop Customer-Facing Engineers 

• Partner with the Talent Strategy Lead to build the development track for customer-facing engineers — the technical depth, deployment orientation, and systems thinking that make them effective in the field. 

• Design the growth path from entry through senior levels, with clear capability milestones and visible development investments at each stage. 

Build and Sustain Communities of Practice 

• In partnership with Engineering leaders, launch and run Communities of Practice across Security Engineering's key technical disciplines. 

• In partnership with the AI Transformation Lead, design CoPs as capability-building vehicles, not social forums: each should produce reusable artifacts, surface best practices, and compound the knowledge of the engineers who participate. 

• Develop and support technical sponsors who own the CoP mission and sustain its momentum independently. 

Operate the Inclusion Communities Engine 

• Provide Inclusion Communities — affinity networks and employee resource groups within Security Engineering — with the operating infrastructure, templates, budget mechanisms, and event frameworks they need to run effectively. 

• Coordinate with senior leadership on Inclusion Communities strategic direction, sponsor engagement, and leader involvement. 

• Ensure Inclusion Community programming is equitable and accessible, and reinforces the belonging that makes the broader transformation sustainable. 

This role can sit anywhere in the United States.  

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.

• Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of learning & development, community building, technical curriculum design, or related experience OR
• Proven ability to drive adoption through scalable resources and community engagement
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with matrixed teams and navigate across complex systems
• Demonstrated storytelling and content strategy skills
• Experience designing and delivering learning programs in an engineering or technical organization — with outcomes that go beyond completion rates.
• Proven ability to build communities — CoPs, technical networks, or peer-learning structures — that sustain themselves beyond launch.
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