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Principal Security Program Manager

Microsoft

Microsoft

Operations
USD 163k-296,400 / year
Posted on Aug 30, 2025

Principal Security Program Manager

Multiple Locations, United States

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Date posted
Aug 29, 2025
Job number
1863578
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Program Management
Discipline
Technical Program Management
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Team Description:
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 Security PM Team within Microsoft Security drives new experiences and horizontal security initiatives to ensure proactively mitigate threats and improve security posture across Microsoft’s ecosystem of products used to protect the planet's largest, most influential organizations from cyberattacks.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, information security, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • 10+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification, Security+ Certification, or relevant certification.
  • 3+ years of experience at a cloud hyperscaler working on security products or services or equivalent experience working at a leading security vendor
  • Written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executives and collaborating across engineering, security stakeholders, and legal teams

Technical Program Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 5th, 2025.

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Responsibilities

Identifies crucial and strategic opportunities and gaps in the implementation of multiple feature areas. Demonstrates and builds experiences across multiple groups or divisions by influencing and building alignment among cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. Acts as a subject matter expert when defining the program(s) goals and prioritization for the multiple feature areas they own across divisional boundaries. Creates relationships to drive orchestration and integration efforts for the development and implementation process of multiple feature areas. Leads the tracking, coordination, and communication of end-to-end project schedules. Uses analytical skills and experience using data to drive product decisions and measure success outcomes. Oversees the development of the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for multiple feature areas. Oversees governance programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle. Validates use-case and scenario outcomes, and security targets that are being achieved. Serves as an expert to partner with others to collect security metrics. Oversees the customer supportability experience and provides documentation. Acts as a technical leader to educate and evangelize the feature areas.

Other : Embody our Culture and Values


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.