Principal Product Architect

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

21h

About The Position

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. We are looking to hire a Product Architect to join the Sentinel Platform team. We are looking for someone who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment. You know how to set strategic direction for multiple feature areas and drive collaboration on roadmap alignment, investment priorities, and security standards. You evangelize solutions to overcome challenges and enhance divisional impact, guiding alignment of vision and direction. You can engage deeply with a diverse customer portfolio to impact the evolution of our product, in alignment with the direction of the organizational direction. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or product development.
OR equivalent experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or product development OR equivalent experience.
6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
Experience with Microsoft Security products or equivalent.

Responsibilities

AI-Forward Mindset: Sets direction for major strategic opportunities across supported feature areas, championing AI-driven solutions in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, partners, analysts, and customers.
Collaborative Leadership: Shapes and leads a unified vision for experiences across the organization, spanning multiple product and service domains.
Defines and champions transformative, enterprise-wide solutions to the most complex and high impact challenges.
Provides strategic guidance to teams in framing problem statements and hypotheses across feature areas, addressing critical customer needs and significant market opportunities while navigating complex organizational interdependencies.
Drives product market alignment across customer priorities, market dynamics, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership to ensure coherence with long term strategy.
Orchestrates high level, cross functional collaboration to exceed customer and security requirements.
Strategic Vision: You see the big picture and are not afraid to make design and business cases that shape the future.
Provides expert technical guidance and drive strategic collaboration with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to define comprehensive product release criteria, monetization strategies, product positioning, value proposition, customer acquisition, usage, and retention with wide-ranging impact across the organization.
Establishes the vision and strategic direction for advancing multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) across organizational boundaries, leading the journey from private preview to public preview, and then to general availability, with accountability for the division's long-term success.
Business Impact: Sets the strategic direction and champions business impact, success criteria, and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as engagement, usage, acquisition, retention, user love/net promoter score (NPS), revenue, profitability, and in-project features) and fundamentals (e.g., quality, privacy, security, compliance, accessibility, cost of goods sold [COGS]) for specific features or service(s), including success/performance metrics that represent the security posture of products or features (e.g. percent of information being logged that is required for security investigations).
Sets and defines success metrics for AI related features and products Customer Outcomes: Cultivates deep trust with a diverse portfolio of customers across multiple sectors, establishing and automating strategic communication channels with highly complex and key accounts to integrate feedback and insights throughout the product development lifecycle.
Shapes the strategic alignment of the product vision with customer goals, ensuring it resonates with key market demands and customer growth strategies.
Champions and transform customer communities and customer engagement programs, setting a benchmark for industry standards.