Senior Product Manager

Microsoft; United States; On-site; USD 117,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Product Manager focused on cybersecurity. This role involves leveraging your expertise in Microsoft Defender XDR to drive innovation and customer adoption. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security solutions and deliver exceptional customer experiences. If you're passionate about protecting against digital threats and eager to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you. With a growth mindset and a commitment to excellence, you'll thrive in an environment that values creativity and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or software development.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Defender components and cybersecurity fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to identify new opportunities and maximize impact.
• Develop educational resources for field teams and refine offerings.

Skills

Product Management

Cybersecurity Knowledge

Cross-functional Project Management

Technical Sales

Research and Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Microsoft Defender XDR

SIEM

XDR

Job description

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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

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity within Microsoft to leverage your skills in driving innovation and supporting the adoption of our security portfolio? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where creativity and new ideas are celebrated?

If so, we want YOU to join our team! We are a high preforming team; we push the boundaries; we challenge the status quo and never stop innovating.

Our mission is to protect customers from cybersecurity threats. Our vision is to deliver a comprehensive AI-driven security stack that provides best-in-class protection.

Our Threat Protection strategy at Microsoft spans multiple products and services, providing state-of-the-art protection across the entire digital estate of Identity, Devices, Email, Apps, Code, and Data—on-premises, hybrid, and in the cloud—within a multi-platform, multi-cloud, and multi-stack environment. This comprehensive defense is driven by a Unified Threat Protection (SIEM + XDR) platform powered by GenAI.

Building on this foundation, We are seeking a skilled and motivated Microsoft Defender XDR compete and technical pre-sale specialist to strengthen our cybersecurity efforts and enhance our organization's threat detection and response capabilities. The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge of Microsoft's XDR suite and demonstrate expertise in managing advanced threat hunting and security operations.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with experience in this domain and/or a competitive product(s) and can act as a deep subject matter expert to work alongside the field driving sales and adoption of the solution. This ideal candidate should possess the passion to dive deep into the compete landscape, create white papers and present their findings to senior engineering leaders in the organization.

In this role, your contributions will be pivotal in helping customers realize the full potential of our cutting-edge security solutions. You'll secure pivotal deals, capture and act on customer feedback to refine our offerings and ensure an unparalleled customer and partner experience. Your ability to deliver exceptional customer engagements and foster a rapid, data-driven feedback loop will be critical to our success. Join us as we scale to new heights amidst incredible growth and make your mark in the world of cybersecurity.

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

• Collaborate with various product workloads and teams to identify new opportunities for at-scale solutions, accelerate customer adoption, and maximize the impact of these offerings.
• Address the competitive landscape and shape the customer perception of the Defender XDR suite. You will share your expertise with field teams, support new business opportunities, and drive sales and adoption for these essential security services.
• Develop and deliver educational collateral, webinars, and other enablement resources that empower field teams to articulate the value and best practices of the Defender XDR suite. By gathering insights from the field, you will strategically analyze trends and challenges to refine and enhance these offerings, ensuring they align with evolving customer needs and broader business objectives. Additionally, you will identify key opportunities for innovation and long-term impact to drive the adoption and success of the Defender XDR suite.
• Build relationships with engineering, product management, and security research groups. Through these partnerships, you will drive measurable product enhancements for the Defender XDR platform, and create scalable, repeatable processes that enable customers to fully realize the value of Microsoft’s security solutions.
• Embody ourCultureandValues
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• Knowledge of our Microsoft Defender XDR components (including but not limited to Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, etc.) and how they integrate to provide holistic threat protection or in-depth knowledge with leading threat protection solutions
• Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals (threat landscape, attacker techniques, defense strategies), including experience with detection and response methodologies.
• Ability to conduct deep research and gain deep knowledge of new domains and competitive offerings, having the agility to acquire new domain expertise in a shifting and dynamic landscape of threat protection.
  

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: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

• Ability to create technical demos, proof-of-concepts, and collateral that effectively communicate product capabilities and best practices to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Industry-recognized certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CEH) demonstrating a solid foundation in security principles and hands-on expertise.
• Experience technical sales background or extensive experience in field/customer-facing roles.
• Experience acting as a customer focused advisor with Global 500 companies.
• Ability to drive improvements in end-to-end customer experiences and the drive to dive deep into our competitors' solutions.
• Ability to act as a liaison between customers and development teams to ensure successful technical fulfillment of customer requirements
  
  

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 May 8th, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  Software Development

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