Senior Product 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.

We are looking to hire a Senior Product Manager on the Core Authentication Platform team. As organizations accelerate their digital transformations and embrace AI, securing authentication is foundational to protecting their people, data, resources, and AI agents. In this role, you will define the product strategy and roadmap for securing authentication sessions and protocols across Microsoft Entra, helping customers confidently manage access in an evolving threat landscape — including the emerging world of AI-driven workloads. You will partner with engineering, engage with customers and partners, and drive new products that advance Microsoft's Zero Trust vision. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of the AI transformation — learning new skills, helping redesign roles and responsibilities in the new AI era, and ensuring that authentication remains the cornerstone of modern security for billions of users and AI agents worldwide. Join a team where your work directly protects over a billion users and the next generation of AI agents. The Core Authentication Platform team sits at the heart of Microsoft's identity and security story — every authentication decision we make has global impact. You'll tackle some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry, from hardening auth protocols to securing AI-driven workloads at massive 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.

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• Anticipates customers’ unmet needs and market opportunities for enhancements to Entra Core Authentication Platform.
• Demonstrates and builds enterprise-grade product experiences across team & divisional boundaries.
• Influences and drives engagement with cross-functional internal partnerships, external partners, including early adopting customers, senior leadership, and other key stakeholders to gather input and garner support for product plans and roadmap.
• Ensures alignment between the roadmap with the team’s Objective & Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/project/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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Identity or security product experience preferred.
• Track record of going technically deep and quickly ramping up on new technologies.
• Desirable to have experience using Generative AI tools to improve product development & product experiences.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.