Microsoft
Technical Program Manager II
Found: Today
The Cloud & AI 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 Business Security team within the CISO organization in Cloud & AI focuses on securing Microsoft’s business critical functions, spanning a broad set of scenarios such as customer support, finance, and marketing. The team identifies and resolves security vulnerabilities in business platforms and processes to ensure the security of our customers, partners and our own environments and business critical information. We are seeking a talented Technical Program Manager II to drive the risk mitigation strategy in key areas within Microsoft's business functions. The work here will involve deeply understanding and prioritizing risk, based on analysis of threat actor profiles, developing a technical and operational strategy to mitigate those risks, and working with our partners across Microsoft to implement that strategy. If you thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous environment and are driven to deliver meaningful impact while continuously learning, we’d love to connect with you!
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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities- Work with partners across the security organization to analyze and discover risks in key areas within Microsoft's business operations
- Identify key security priorities in the space, based on assessment of threat actors and other key indicators, and align stakeholders on those priorities
- Develop technical and operational mitigation strategies for top risks
- Work with engineering, operational, and business counterparts to implement mitigation strategies
- Regularly communicate across stakeholders and executives about the status of risk mitigation
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 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 5+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- 2+ years in a technical role involving either data analysis and analytics, engineering, or high-scale cloud services
- Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively across stakeholders and executives
- 2+ years in a role involving cybersecurity
