Senior Program Manager

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.

The ‘Microsoft Red Team: Engineering’ team develops red team tools for use by human operators. We also build intelligent attack emulation services that automate those same tools for security defenders. We are looking for a program manager that can drive the delivery of red team tools and AI systems that automate offensive engagements, can build relationships with partners to leverage these capabilities to improve security at Microsoft, and can constantly press Microsoft defenders to find ways to outsmart our attackers.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for building and leveraging cutting edge adversary emulation capabilities to scale red team insights to defensive capabilities across Microsoft. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate about our products, and grounded in our customers’ needs. Our team values thoughtful engineering, the ability to develop strong relationships with your peers and partners, and the ability to focus on the outcomes that matter.

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. 

As a Senior Program Manager, you will:

• Drive the adoption and effective use of adversary emulation capabilities across Microsoft.
• Partner with internal defensive security teams to improve their detection, investigation, and response capabilities.
• Woek with engineering partners and leadership to develop and implement team strategy, product roadmaps, and OKRs.
• Conceptualize, prioritize, and support AI-driven adversary emulation services and user scenarios.
• Prioritize red team tooling scenarios for both human operators and adversary emulation services.
• Support partner development teams in contributing to our services.
• Research the latest attack techniques used by internal red teams and external threat actors.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years of professional program or product management experience.
• Program or product management experience in security programs, security engineering, offensive security, pen testing, or red teaming

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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
  •  OR equivalent experience.
•  6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 5+ years of professional program or product management experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 24, 2025.

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