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.

The Artificial Generative Intelligence Security (AeGIS) team is charged with ensuring the safety of all of Microsoft's generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems against the full range of threats that they face - from traditional security risks, to novel security threats like indirect prompt injection, to entirely AI-native threats like the manufacture of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) or child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) or the use of AI to run automated scams. It works in close collaboration with partner organizations across the company.

Things will go wrong in production systems - both security and general safety issues. When these things happen, we need to ensure that we have the signals needed to find them, the detection practices to actually find them, and the response practices (from continuous automated response all the way up to full-scale incident management) to react to them. These components are built and maintained by a range of teams across the company.

The Head of AI Incident Detection and Response will be the accountable leader responsible for pulling these teams together to form and execute on a coherent strategy, and for maintaining operational readiness and the response system going forward.

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

• Defining and articulating a strategy for AI detection and response, and continually updating that to respond to changing needs.
• Driving execution against that strategy, with a combination of formal and informal leadership, to meet critical objectives.
• Continually ensuring that operations are executing well and that nothing is being dropped on the floor.
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the company and beyond to understand and respond to requirements.
• Being the voice of detection and incident response within AI safety leadership and across Microsoft.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years experience leading operational functions (e.g. incident response or threat intelligence) in any security or Internet safety discipline.

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 12+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in social media or gaming digital safety.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 25, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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