Principal + Senior Product Managers- Defender

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

9d•$119,800 - $304,200

About The Position

Microsoft is hiring Principal and Senior Product Managers to shape security posture and risk products through Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM). MSEM gives organizations a unified view of security posture across endpoints, cloud resources, identities, and external attack surfaces. It connects the enterprise exposure graph, critical assets, attack paths, security insights, and recommendations to help customers prioritize and mitigate risk. The role owns strategy and execution for a large portfolio area, defining AI-first security solutions that support clear decisions, coordinated action, and measurable risk reduction. Principal Product Managers establish AI-powered intelligence loops using customer signals, telemetry, threat research, market evidence, and strategic engagements. They own the customer promise, multi-year strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes; lead zero-to-one product development; establish product evaluation and quality systems; define go-to-market strategy for major investments; and collaborate across Microsoft teams and external partners to deliver integrated experiences and improve product outcomes. Senior Product Managers use AI, telemetry, market analysis, and customer engagement to identify unmet needs and prioritize opportunities. They define product vision, roadmaps, investments, and outcomes; build prototypes and lead end-to-end development with engineering, design, data science, and research; drive go-to-market execution from private preview through general availability; and use feedback, telemetry, experiments, and AI-driven analysis to improve products and scale reusable practices. Microsoft states that its mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more, and describes a culture grounded in growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 5+ 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 checks upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, such as through design, product-market fit, and launch.
4+ years of experience improving product metrics in a market, such as growing a customer base, expanding usage, or avoiding churn.
4+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience, such as through competitive disruption or replacing an established product.
Demonstrated experience building enterprise-security products used by security leaders and practitioners.
Experience with attack-surface management, vulnerability management, cloud-security posture, attack paths, security graphs, threat intelligence, or remediation workflows.
Experience taking an AI capability from technical exploration through evaluation, launch, and scaled production operation.
Experience personally creating working prototypes, demos, agents, or automated workflows with AI-assisted tools to validate product ideas and accelerate learning.
Experience establishing reusable AI-first workflows, evaluation methods, shared assets, or paved paths that improve effectiveness across multiple teams.
Fluency in AI product evaluation, including grounding, relevance, precision and recall, safety, explainability, latency, and cost.
Demonstrated ability to influence executives, resolve cross-company dependencies, coach Product Managers, and lead AI-first adoption through significant ambiguity.

Responsibilities

Establish AI-powered intelligence loops across customer signals, telemetry, threat research, market evidence, and strategic engagements to identify needs and guide portfolio decisions.
Own or define product vision, customer promise, strategy, roadmap, investments, and measurable outcomes for AI-first security solutions.
Lead zero-to-one product development or end-to-end product development with engineering, design, data science, and research.
Use AI-assisted tools to create prototypes and accelerate learning, decisions, and product development.
Establish evaluation systems and quality standards for secure, private, responsible, reliable, explainable, and accessible product experiences.
Define or drive go-to-market strategy and execution from preview through scaled adoption or general availability, aligning Product Marketing, field, sales, support, engineering, partners, executives, and customers.
Collaborate across Microsoft product teams and external partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end experiences.
Use customer feedback, telemetry, experiments, performance insights, and AI-driven analysis to improve outcomes, guide product evolution, and amplify product value.
Lead major investments and align stakeholders on release criteria, positioning, adoption, and readiness.
Influence executives, resolve cross-company dependencies, coach Product Managers, and lead AI-first adoption through ambiguity.