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

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $106,400 - $203,600

About The Position

The Senior Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence role is part of Microsoft Security’s Security Compete team, which turns competitive evidence into product and go-to-market decisions, positioning, and field guidance. The role focuses on modern application security, AI code security, and code-to-cloud capabilities. It helps position application and code security as part of Microsoft’s end-to-end security offering by connecting risk and remediation from development through runtime. The work includes Microsoft Security’s multi-model agentic system, MDASH, in close partnership with GitHub, Defender, and exposure management teams.

The role tracks competitive developments across application security, application security posture management (ASPM), cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP), and software supply chain security, including the use of AI to discover, validate, and fix vulnerabilities. It translates evidence from customer evaluations, win/loss analysis, field feedback, market research, and analyst input into recommendations on product investment, gaps, and differentiation. It also develops technical and seller-facing materials for competitive evaluations and supports priority deals. AI-assisted work is used to keep pace with the market, with accountability for accuracy.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 3+ years of business experience; or bachelor's degree in those 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

• 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 linking 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, and package ecosystem security.
• Public work such as research, CVEs, conference talks, open-source contributions, or technical writing.
• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CSSLP, or cloud security certifications.
• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 6+ years of business experience; or bachelor's degree in those fields and 8+ years of business experience; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Track platform and specialist competitors across AppSec, ASPM, CNAPP, and software supply chain security, including code security, reachability and exploitability, and code-to-cloud risk.
• Translate competitive insight into recommendations about Microsoft’s AppSec investments, product gaps, and market differentiation.
• Ground recommendations in customer evaluations, win/loss analysis, field feedback, and market and analyst input.
• Create vendor analyses, technical briefs, and battlecards for sellers conducting 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.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits information is available via the provided Microsoft careers link.

What This Job Offers

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