Microsoft

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.

Are you looking for a product management role where you will collaborate with our sellers, feature PMs, the product vertical and horizontal teams within our Security Engineering Customer Experience organization (CxE), as well as multiple Marketing teams?

The focus of the Targeted Customer Product Manager role within the Customer, Communities and Partner (CCP) team is to support worldwide Corporate and Majors Growth accounts reactively as requested by our field teams or proactively based on targeted campaigns to gather product feedback. You will deliver L200+ readiness across the full security portfolio to secure sales, deployment, and retention. You will have strong field relationships to offer pre- and post-sales support to ensure that our security stack is a good fit for the ~30k managed accounts through digital sales.

We're on the lookout for a Security Product Manager who is energized by direct customer interactions, delivering technical content, and driving product success. If you are ready to take on this challenge and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from 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.

• Act as the advocate and interface between customers, partners, and the Microsoft Security product and engineering teams for Microsoft’s Security AI product and the Microsoft 365 Defender product suite, Sentinel, Intune, and Entra to ensure customer and partner issues are properly addressed, drive critical feedback and insights, and gather customer requirements to improve the product, value to customers, and product adoption.
• Support customers, partners, and engagement teams as the Security AI product evolves.
• Serve as a point of contact in Microsoft Security Engineering for assigned customers and partners.
• Work towards becoming a subject matter expert on the Microsoft Security AI strategy and supporting product technologies (Microsoft 365 Defender, Sentinel, and Intune) to effectively guide customers and partners.
• Work directly with customers at all levels of their security organization from analyst to CISO to support investigation and response.
• Deliver partner and customer readiness sessions online and/or in person.
• Embody our culture and values

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to go deep in select security technical/solution areas with drive and a growth mindset.
• Effective communication skills with excellent interpersonal skills, excellent written and spoken communication for both internal and external audiences, and the ability to adapt to your audience (including senior executives).
• Experience working with senior stakeholders
• Ability to partner closely with both internal and external customers and partners.
• Ability to adapt fast to changes and move from one project to the other

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate business needs for detection improvements.
• Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns.
• Experience with direct customer and partner communication.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Security products, such as Entra, Intune, Purview, Defender family, and the evolving Copilot for Security.
• Ability to work on cross-team projects.
• A strategic mindset and vision to anticipate future demands and competitive needs.
• Familiarity with competing security products
• Experience with reporting, analytical, and dashboarding capabilities including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Excel, with a strong data driven mindset.
• Understand SOC functions and workflows, such as incident triage and investigation, and translate those insights into successful customer experiences with Microsoft’s Security AI product.

Product Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 June 18, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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