Principal + Senior Product Managers- Defender

Overview We are looking for Principal and Senior Product Managers to help shape the future of security posture and risk through Microsoft Security Exposure Management. MSEM gives organizations a unified view of security posture across endpoints, cloud resources, identities, and external attack surfaces. It connects the enterprise exposure graph, critical assets, attack paths, security insights, and recommendations to help customers prioritize and mitigate risk. You will own strategy and execution for a large portfolio area, defining innovative, AI-first security solutions that drive clear decisions, coordinated action, and measurable risk reduction. 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

Principal Product Managers:

• AI-first customer and market signals: Establish continuous AI-powered intelligence loops across customer signals, telemetry, threat research, market evidence, and strategic engagements to identify emerging needs and shape portfolio-level decisions
• Drive product vision and strategy: Own the customer promise, multi-year strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes, defining how AI, agents, security research, and integrated exposure signals become core parts of the product
• Lead product development: Lead zero-to-one product development across organizations, personally using AI-assisted tools to accelerate prototypes and decisions while establishing evaluation systems and secure, private, responsible, reliable, and explainable quality bars
• Lead go-to-market: Define go-to-market strategy for major investments and use AI to accelerate learning and alignment across Product Marketing, field, sales, support, engineering, partners, executives, and strategic customers from preview through scaled adoption
• Drive cross-team collaboration and product performance: Work across Microsoft product teams and external partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end experiences.
• Use customer feedback, telemetry, and performance insights to guide joint initiatives, improve outcomes, and amplify product value

Senior Product Managers:

• AI-first customer and market signals: Use AI, telemetry, market analysis, and customer engagement to identify unmet security needs, test hypotheses, and prioritize opportunities across multiple feature areas.
• Drive product vision and strategy: Define product vision, roadmaps, investments, and measurable outcomes, including how AI and integrated exposure signals deliver customer value, business impact, and improved security posture.
• Own product development: Build prototypes and drive end-to-end product development with engineering, design, data science, and research, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate learning and deliver secure, responsible, reliable, and accessible experiences.
• Drive go-to-market: Drive go-to-market execution from private preview through general availability, aligning Product Marketing, field, sales, support, engineering, and customers on release criteria, positioning, adoption, and readiness.
• Improve product performance through collaboration: Work across Microsoft product teams and partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end experiences. Use customer feedback, telemetry, experiments, and AI-driven analysis to improve outcomes, guide product evolution, and scale reusable practices.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ 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 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ 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).
• 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise-security products used by security leaders and practitioners.
• Experience with attack-surface management, vulnerability management, cloud-security posture, attack paths, security graphs, threat intelligence, or remediation workflows.
• Experience taking an AI capability from technical exploration through evaluation, launch, and scaled production operation.-
• Experience personally creating working prototypes, demos, agents, or automated workflows with AI-assisted tools to validate product ideas and accelerate learning.
• Experience establishing reusable AI-first workflows, evaluation methods, shared assets, or paved paths that increased effectiveness across multiple teams.
• Fluency in AI product evaluation, including grounding, relevance, precision and recall, safety, explainability, latency, and cost.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives, resolve cross-company dependencies, coach Product Managers, and lead AI-first adoption through significant ambiguity.

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: 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: 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. ](