Technical Program Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Our team's mission is to safeguard how Microsoft uses open source software in our products and services. We achieve this mission by bringing software and security engineering talent together to invent the future of robust and scalable security practices. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team of security professionals who drive key security initiatives to protect our customers and Microsoft. You'll cut new ground, bringing to life new security strategies, blending traditional and AI to address a rapidly changing threat and regulatory landscape. As a senior security program manager, you’ll leverage your deep understanding of security tools and practices to develop scalable programs that ensure Microsoft’s products and services are secure. You’ll work with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders across different teams to understand their security challenges and help your team identify the most important work to reduce risk to Microsoft and its customers. You will partner with security engineers building security tools and automation that help secure Microsoft products and services. This is a great opportunity for an experienced security program manager to make significant impact across Microsoft. Come help us on this transformative journey. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years' experience in engineering, product/technical program management or product development.
4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
2+ years of experience in software security
1+ year experience in supporting compliance with cybersecurity regulations related to supply chain security.
Experience writing code and engineer-facing documentation.
Experience building software supply chain security tools and automation.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements for security tooling, automation, and policy.
Regularly communicate with a broad set of stakeholders to drive alignment about security priorities and roadmaps.
Build trusted relationships that enable teams to move quickly and securely.
Gather data from diverse sources to drive decision making and risk mitigation strategies.
Utilize AI/ML technologies to efficiently analyze data and effectively communicate complex ideas.
Understand new cybersecurity regulations and coordinate with partner teams on policy alignment and regulatory readiness.
Integrate compliance requirements into prioritization and development roadmaps for security tools and automation.
Collaborate closely with security engineers building security tools and automation.
Contribute to the core engineering security requirements (including the Security Development Lifecycle), ensuring they stay relevant as technologies and development methodologies change over time.
Embody our culture and values