Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

With the pace of AI innovation and competition, it's more important than ever to ensure that the AI experiences are safe and secure. Come join the team in Microsoft Office that hundreds of millions of users rely on for secure, private, and responsible use of AI productivity. The Office Security Team is looking for a Principal Product Manager to own the layer that stops malicious instructions from ever landing, the detection that catches them on the way in, and the containment that makes sure a single bad input cannot cascade into real damage. Cross-prompt injection, is the defining security threat of the agentic era, and there is no textbook for beating it. The defenses you ship decide whether people can trust AI with their most sensitive work, from their finances to their health records to their company's crown jewels. This is a place to go deep: the detection and containment problems here are genuinely unsolved, the feedback loop is fast, and the craft you build will be in demand for the rest of the agentic era. pre-AI era, and influence peers to embed AI into the fabric of how we work. 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 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Experience shipping security, platform, or infrastructure capabilities; a background in threat modeling, application security, service security, or AI/LLM security is a plus.
• 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 6+ 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).
• A track record of setting technical direction that multiple teams adopted, in an environment where the playbook did not yet exist.
• A track record of using metrics and telemetry to prove and improve real-world security posture.
• Demonstrated experience across the full software product development cycle.
• Experience designing user-facing trust, consent, or safety experiences is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end agent security threat model and turn it into a scalable product strategy that you’ll execute across Office apps and partner teams.
• Build prevention that catches malicious instructions before they reach the model, guardrails that stop actions in their tracks, and containment that keeps a single bad input from cascading.
• Define the data flywheel, evals, and evolving threat model to measure residual risk and protection coverage metrics.
• Go deep on security and systems problems, and an unsolved threat energizes you rather than deterring you.
• Be driven by real customer impact, and seek out the attack scenarios and stakes that make the work matter.
• Turn ambiguity into a plan, owning strategy, roadmap, and crisp execution across many partner teams.
• Design guardrails that protect people without getting in their way, balancing security with a deep user experience.
• Build trust, momentum, and exec sponsorship across groups and orgs; broker tough cross-team agreements without constant escalation.
• Operate independently with a get-it-done bias when the path is unclear.
• Lead through others, creating clarity and direction for multiple crews and workstreams, and making partner teams successful.
• Communicate with clarity and conviction, in writing and in the room, and tailored to executive audiences.

Benefits

• 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal