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.

Did you know that Microsoft operates and manages one of the largest private global networks on earth? Did you know that Microsoft is one of the largest providers of security-as-a-service offerings? The identity and network access team develops cloud based native network security and identity services that play a foundation role to protect user and resources (applications, devices and data) access in a mobile first cloud first world. We are working on new innovative cloud native security services and are looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our team and help us grow our suite of offerings and larger business portfolio. If you enjoy defining and driving new network security and management capabilities that delight customers, love partnering with engineers to solve complex problems and deliver customer delightful capabilities, working closely with finance and business planning to understand cogs and monetize offerings, engaging customers and Customer Engagement to validate offerings and drive adoption then this could be the role for you.

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 product offering and enable customer adoption.
• Develop strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams and drive alignment.
• Partner with finance, business planning and marketing to define monetization, positioning, cogs and pricing
• Work closely with product marketing and Customer Engagement team to position offering and enable sales organization to pilot, deploy and operate offering

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications :

• 7+ years developing strategic solutions requiring participation across organizational boundaries
• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of network technologies and passion for infrastructure services. Network security experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated technical problem solving and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment with rapidly changing requirements
• Demonstrated leadership and strong cross-team skills.
• Experience interacting with enterprise customers and influencing people without direct authority.

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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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