Do you want to help organizations protect endpoints against modern threats and strengthen security at runtime? The endpoint threat landscape has fundamentally changed. Devices and workloads now operate across distributed environments, while attackers use increasingly sophisticated techniques to gain access, evade detection, and move through organizations. Security teams need effective ways to prevent threats, detect suspicious activity, and respond quickly across their endpoint estate. We are building the next generation of Microsoft Defender capabilities that protect endpoints at runtime, from prevention and threat detection through investigation, response, and recovery. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helps security teams understand and stop threats across their environments.
We are looking for a Principal Product Manager who will help define product strategy, customer scenarios, roadmap investments, and platform direction for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. You will work across Microsoft Defender, Windows, Azure, security research teams, engineering organizations, software vendors and customers to turn emerging endpoint security challenges into category-defining products. This is a highly strategic and deeply technical product role. Success requires strong product instincts, the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, and a passion for solving complex security problems at industry 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
- Shape product strategy and roadmap priorities for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s prevention, detection, investigation, and response capabilities.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs, market shifts, and emerging threats, and translate that insight into clear product direction.
- Partner across Microsoft Defender, Windows, Azure, AI, and security research teams to align strategy and execution.
- Define differentiated product experiences that help customers prevent endpoint attacks, detect and investigate threats, and respond effectively across their environments.
- Represent Microsoft with customers, executives, and industry audiences as a credible voice on endpoint protection, runtime security, and threat detection and response.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ 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 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 6+ 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).
- 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
- Experience defining and delivering products or platforms in endpoint security, cybersecurity, cloud services, or enterprise software.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Experience translating technical concepts into customer value and business outcomes.
- Deep experience in endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), runtime security, threat prevention, or security operations.
- Working knowledge of endpoint threats, operating-system security, attack techniques, telemetry, detection engineering, and incident response workflows.
- Experience applying threat intelligence, security operations, or incident response insights to endpoint protection and detection scenarios.
- Familiarity with the threat model for AI use on endpoints at runtime, including how agents, models, and local AI workloads can introduce new attack surfaces, expose sensitive data, or be misused by attackers.
- Relevant security certifications such as CISSP.
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. 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.
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