Overview
Microsoft Security is one of the world's largest security organizations — spanning endpoint, identity, cloud, and data security — and one of Microsoft's fastest-growing businesses. Its engineers work at one of the most consequential intersections in technology — where AI, adversarial pressure, and organizational scale meet in real time. Staying effective in that environment requires more than a training catalog. It requires a learning ecosystem: technical programs deep enough to matter, leadership development that changes behavior, and communities where knowledge compounds peer to peer.
As part of the Executive Office of the EVP of Microsoft Security, the Learning & Growth Leader is responsible for building the learning ecosystem and learning culture for Security Engineering. The role owns distinct capability dimensions including technical fluency, systems thinking, and agile leadership and the community infrastructure that makes growth self-sustaining long after any single program ends.
Responsibilities
Build and Run Security Learning Programs
Design and deliver Security Learning — a live and on-demand curriculum spanning technical fluency, AI-augmented security practice, and learning experiences relevant to Microsoft Security's product surface.
Ensure learning is directly tied to what engineers face in their day-to-day work: practical, applicable, and immediately useful.
Build feedback loops from learner experience and manager signal back into curriculum design and prioritization.
Develop the systems thinking track for senior ICs and architects, and the agile leadership track for engineering managers — considering this paths from the perspective of a capability architect.
Develop Customer-Facing Engineers
Partner with the Talent Strategy Lead to build the development track for customer-facing engineers — the technical depth, deployment orientation, and systems thinking that make them effective in the field.
Design the growth path from entry through senior levels, with clear capability milestones and visible development investments at each stage.
Build and Sustain Communities of Practice
In partnership with Engineering leaders, launch and run Communities of Practice across Security Engineering's key technical disciplines.
In partnership with the AI Transformation Lead, design CoPs as capability-building vehicles, not social forums: each should produce reusable artifacts, surface best practices, and compound the knowledge of the engineers who participate.
Develop and support technical sponsors who own the CoP mission and sustain its momentum independently.
Operate the Inclusion Communities Engine
Provide Inclusion Communities — affinity networks and employee resource groups within Security Engineering — with the operating infrastructure, templates, budget mechanisms, and event frameworks they need to run effectively.
Coordinate with senior leadership on Inclusion Communities strategic direction, sponsor engagement, and leader involvement.
Ensure Inclusion Community programming is equitable and accessible, and reinforces the belonging that makes the broader transformation sustainable.
This role can sit anywhere in the United States.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of learning & development, community building, technical curriculum design, or related experience OR
- Proven ability to drive adoption through scalable resources and community engagement
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with matrixed teams and navigate across complex systems
- Demonstrated storytelling and content strategy skills
- Experience designing and delivering learning programs in an engineering or technical organization — with outcomes that go beyond completion rates.
- Proven ability to build communities — CoPs, technical networks, or peer-learning structures — that sustain themselves beyond launch.
- Understanding of how engineers develop capability: through practice, peers, and application, not passive consumption.
- Ability to hold both individual development and systemic scale simultaneously — and design for both without sacrificing either.
- Experience supporting or operating affinity/ERG/inclusion programs or similar community infrastructure is a strong plus and understanding how they can be key vehicles for organizational learning and growth.
Business Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 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.
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