Principal + Senior Product Managers

Overview Security represents the most critical priority for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all — reshaping security and empowering every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

Identity and Network Access (IDNA) builds the foundational identity and access technologies that help secure Microsoft and customers around the world. Our organization delivers authentication, authorization, identity security, access governance, and zero-trust network access solutions, including Microsoft Entra.

Operating at global scale, IDNA is focused on advancing secure access across users, devices, applications, and emerging AI experiences while helping shape the future of digital identity and trust.

We are now extending the IDNA organization to the age of AI. We are actively incorporating AI-driven capabilities to enhance threat detection, automate decision-making, and help organizations securely adopt emerging AI workloads, agents, and applications — ensuring safe access to AI services and protection of the sensitive data those AI systems use.

We are looking for a Principal and S enior Product Manage rs to join this team and help drive the product roadmap for securing AI. You will work in an early-stage problem space, partnering closely with customers, engineering, and cross-functional peers to turn hard security and AI challenges into differentiated product capabilities that ship fast and scale.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own product vision, strategy, roadmap and execution for user onboarding and self-service management across Microsoft Entra and consumer accounts (MSA).
• Shape product strategy and execution plan from customer needs, telemetry, market research, business opportunities, and emerging trends in identity, security, access management, governance and compliance.
• Prioritize investments and features by customer impact, business value, technical feasibility and strategic goals.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, research and data science to deliver innovative customer-facing solutions.
• Lead specs through product review forums.
• Influence without authority across product, engineering, security, business and partner teams.
• Drive alignment, resolve priority and dependency tradeoffs, and reach shared outcomes.
• Act as executive point of contact for strategic customers and partners.
• Handle escalations, validate scenarios, gather feedback, and turn what you learn into roadmap priorities.
• Define success metrics and track product performance.
• Report status, decisions and impact to leadership through business reviews, key results (KRs) and executive summaries.
• Drive go-to-market readiness and adoption with marketing, sales, documentation and support teams: announcements, blogs, FAQs, conference content and customer success.
• Lead with AI in how the team works and what it ships.
• Use AI for research, prototyping, spec writing and validation.
• Build AI-driven efficiency tools and AI-driven customer-facing products.
• Mentor PMs on the team and build an inclusive culture of innovation, customer obsession, accountability and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Experience owning identity, authentication, security or enterprise platform products end to end.
• Track record of leading large cross-org initiatives or platform migrations, managing complex dependencies, and influencing without authority.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and executives, including handling escalations.
• Hands-on use of AI in product work (research, prototyping, spec writing) or experience shipping AI-powered features.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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