Principal + Senior Product Managers- Defender

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

8d • $119,800 - $304,200

About The Position

Microsoft is hiring Principal and Senior Product Managers to shape security posture and risk through Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM). MSEM provides organizations with 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, own multi-year portfolio strategy and outcomes, lead zero-to-one development, define go-to-market strategy for major investments, and coordinate across Microsoft teams and external partners. Senior Product Managers identify and prioritize opportunities across feature areas, define product roadmaps and outcomes, lead end-to-end development, execute launches from private preview through general availability, and improve product performance through feedback, telemetry, experiments, and AI-driven analysis.

The position requires a Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. Compensation varies by level and location. For Product Management IC4, the typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800–$234,700 per year, or $160,200–$261,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area. For Product Management IC5, the typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year, or $188,000–$304,200 in those locations. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, including design, product-market fit, and launch.
• 4+ years of experience improving product metrics in a market, such as growing a customer base, expanding customer 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 competing 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 increased 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 using customer signals, telemetry, threat research, market evidence, and strategic engagements to identify needs and shape product and portfolio decisions.
• Own or define product vision, customer promise, strategy, roadmaps, investments, and measurable outcomes for security products and portfolio areas.
• Lead product development, including zero-to-one development where applicable, and work with engineering, design, data science, and research to create secure, responsible, reliable, accessible, and explainable experiences.
• Build prototypes and use AI-assisted tools to accelerate learning, decisions, and product development; establish evaluation systems and quality bars.
• Define or execute go-to-market strategy 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 product outcomes and guide product evolution.
• For Principal Product Managers, lead major investments and portfolio-level decisions, and drive joint initiatives that improve outcomes and amplify product value.
• For Senior Product Managers, prioritize opportunities across multiple feature areas, align teams on release criteria, positioning, adoption, and readiness, and scale reusable practices.

What This Job Offers

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