Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities 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. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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.
We are a product-led team at the heart of Microsoft’s Security Access Service Edge (SASE) strategy, responsible for building and scaling Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access, along with the core platform that powers them. Our mission is to redefine secure access by protecting applications, data, and services across cloud, SaaS, and on premises environments—at global scale and with enterprise-grade reliability. The team is focused on advancing the secure access platform to deliver stronger security outcomes, simpler operations, and intelligent, adaptive protection for customers. 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 sensitive data used by AI systems. We thrive in early-stage problem spaces, working closely with customers to understand complex security challenges and translate those insights into differentiated product capabilities. Partnering deeply with engineering and cross functional peers, we tackle hard technical problems, move quickly from concept to impact, and continuously evolve the platform to meet the needs of a rapidly changing security and AI landscape.
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 and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a core area of Microsoft’s SASE offering, including Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access.
- Lead the evolution of the secure access platform to protect applications, data, and services across cloud, SaaS, and on prem environments.
- Advance AI driven capabilities that improve security outcomes, simplify operations, and enable secure adoption of emerging AI workloads and applications.
- Partner closely with engineering and cross functional teams to deliver high quality, scalable products from concept through launch and iteration.
- Engage deeply with customers and the market to translate insights into differentiated, impactful product capabilities.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high performing team of product managers while aligning stakeholders across the organization.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years people management 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years people management experience.
- 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 8+ 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).
- 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g.,. competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
Product Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**