Principal Program Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

2d•$142,800 - $304,200

About The Position

The Cloud Delivery team helps Microsoft Defender deliver reliable, secure services for customers around the world, including in sovereign and regulated cloud environments. We bring together product engineering, cloud infrastructure, and service operations to improve readiness, resolve cross-team delivery challenges, and turn operational learnings into lasting improvements for the services customers rely on. 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 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree AND 14+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, OR equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs
Working knowledge of security fundamentals, including vulnerabilities, exposure, remediation, and risk assessments sufficient to discuss security prioritization with engineering teams.
Technical understanding of network infrastructure and distributed services sufficient to discuss architecture, dependencies, and security tradeoffs with engineers.
Written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk, uncertainty, and progress to executives.
Experience coordinating security posture or vulnerability remediation programs across a large product or infrastructure organization.
Familiarity with large-scale security initiatives and the challenges of applying shared goals across multiple engineering teams.
Experience finding gaps in security reporting, reconciling inconsistent data, and turning program-level trends into decisions.
Background in cloud infrastructure, network security, identity, or endpoint protection.

Responsibilities

Build and govern a scalable program across Defender's security fundamentals efforts. Establish review cadences, reporting expectations, escalation paths, and clear ownership with engineering and security leaders.
Use existing risk registers and key performance indicators to explain where risks remain, how they are changing, and whether remediation is making progress. Identify gaps or conflicting information and work with the relevant owners to resolve them.
Partner with deputy CISO leadership, engineering managers, and technical leads to understand plans, dependencies, milestones, and obstacles. Help teams make commitments visible and maintain a regular rhythm for reviewing progress.
Coordinate across teams when risks or remediation efforts span services or ownership boundaries. Bring unresolved priority, dependency, and resource decisions to the appropriate leaders with clear options and tradeoffs.
Produce and maintain concise, periodic summaries of security posture, progress, and emerging themes across the Defender organization.
Establish planning and review mechanisms that give senior leaders a clear view of portfolio health, strategic tradeoffs, unresolved decisions, and required actions.
Support division-wide security efforts, including initiatives such as Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, by connecting their goals to Defender's existing governance and engineering execution.