Senior Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence - Code and Application Security

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

3d • $106,400 - $222,600

About The Position

The Senior Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence role is part of Microsoft Security’s Security Compete team. The team turns competitive evidence into product positioning, field guidance, go-to-market choices, and product input across its security pillars. This role focuses on modern application security (AppSec), AI code security, and code-to-cloud security, helping Microsoft make better product and go-to-market decisions in a fast-changing competitive landscape.

The role helps position application and code security as part of Microsoft’s end-to-end security capabilities, connecting risk and remediation from development through runtime. Its scope includes MDASH, Microsoft Security’s multi-model agentic system for finding, validating, and fixing vulnerabilities, in partnership with GitHub, Defender, and exposure management teams. The successful candidate will track competitors, advise on Microsoft’s AppSec direction, and create guidance for sellers handling competitive evaluations.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 3+ years of business experience; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 5+ years of business experience; or equivalent experience.
• Strong competitive intelligence, product marketing, analytical writing, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to combine AI-assisted synthesis, public evidence, customer-facing materials, and technical analysis to assess vendor claims.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 6+ years of business experience; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 8+ years of business experience; or equivalent experience.
• Technical depth in code and application security, including secure development, static and dynamic analysis, vulnerability triage and prioritization, threat modeling, and developer remediation workflows.
• Experience with CNAPP or exposure management, particularly connecting AppSec findings to runtime reachability, exploitability, and attack paths.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and security, including AI coding assistants, AI code review, autofix, AI-assisted application security, and MCP or agent tooling.
• Experience with modern delivery pipelines and software supply chain security, including CI/CD platforms, SBOM, provenance, signing, package ecosystem security, or related practices.
• Public work such as research, CVEs, conference talks, open-source contributions, or technical writing.
• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CSSLP, or cloud security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Track how AppSec, ASPM, CNAPP, and software supply chain competitors are evolving across code security, reachability and exploitability, and code-to-cloud risk, and assess the implications for Microsoft.
• Turn competitive insight into recommendations on where Microsoft should invest, which product gaps to close, and how to differentiate in the market.
• Ground recommendations in customer evaluations, win/loss analysis, field feedback, and market and analyst input.
• Develop vendor analyses, technical briefs, and battlecards for sellers in AppSec and code-to-cloud evaluations.
• Support priority deals where competitive insight can affect the outcome.
• Use AI to keep competitive analysis current while remaining accountable for accuracy.

What This Job Offers

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