Principal Product Manager- Endpoint Security

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

9h

About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Product Manager to help define the product strategy, customer scenarios, roadmap investments, and platform direction for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The role focuses on building endpoint protection capabilities that address modern threats across distributed environments, covering prevention, detection, investigation, response, and recovery. It is a highly strategic and technically deep product role requiring strong product instincts, cross-organizational influence, and a passion for solving complex security problems at industry scale.

The Product Manager will collaborate with Microsoft Defender, Windows, Azure, AI, security research teams, engineering organizations, software vendors, and customers. The role includes understanding customer needs, market shifts, and emerging threats; turning those insights into product direction; shaping differentiated product experiences; and representing Microsoft with customers, executives, and industry audiences. Microsoft describes its mission as empowering every person and organization to achieve more, and emphasizes growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, such as through design, product-market fit, and launch, or delivering an internal tool or framework.
• 6+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market, such as growing customer base, expanding customer usage, or avoiding customer churn.
• 6+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience, such as through competitive disruption or replacing an established competing product.
• Experience defining and delivering products or platforms in endpoint security, cybersecurity, cloud services, or enterprise software.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Experience translating technical concepts into customer value and business outcomes.
• Deep experience in endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), runtime security, threat prevention, or security operations.
• Working knowledge of endpoint threats, operating-system security, attack techniques, telemetry, detection engineering, and incident response workflows.
• Experience applying threat intelligence, security operations, or incident response insights to endpoint protection and detection scenarios.
• Familiarity with the threat model for AI use on endpoints at runtime, including how agents, models, and local AI workloads can introduce attack surfaces, expose sensitive data, or be misused by attackers.
• Relevant security certifications, such as CISSP.

Responsibilities

• Shape product strategy and roadmap priorities for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s prevention, detection, investigation, and response capabilities.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs, market shifts, and emerging threats, and translate that insight into clear product direction.
• Partner across Microsoft Defender, Windows, Azure, AI, and security research teams to align strategy and execution.
• Define differentiated product experiences that help customers prevent endpoint attacks, detect and investigate threats, and respond effectively across their environments.
• Represent Microsoft with customers, executives, and industry audiences as a credible voice on endpoint protection, runtime security, and threat detection and response.

What This Job Offers

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