Senior Product Manager - ISV Developer Architect

Microsoft; Redmond (WA); Remote; USD 119,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Product Manager to enhance security offerings through ISV collaborations. This role focuses on developing robust integrations with third-party security solutions and driving innovation in product management. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in security operations and product development.

Benefits

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product/service/project management or software development.
• Experience in Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, or Data Security.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing security integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain integrations between Microsoft Security products and ISV solutions.
• Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders for product vision.

Skills

Experience in Security Operations

API design

Data Security & Privacy

Experience working with Microsoft Security products

AI-driven security automation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Senior Product Manager – ISV Developer Architect

Multiple Locations, United States

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Date posted

Jun 12, 2025

Job number

1830298

Work site

Up to 100% work from home

Travel

0-25 %

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Product Management

Discipline

Product Management

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

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.

Within the larger Security Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) organization, our team focuses on building strategic partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to address product gaps, enhance feature sets, and drive innovation across the Microsoft Security ecosystem. We identify high-impact ISV collaborations, align product capabilities, co-launch new technologies, and develop strategies to drive adoption at scale. We're seeking a Senior Security Product manager to help our efforts to strengthn the market position of both Microsoft and our ISV partners, while also delivering value to customers, industry analysts, and the broader security community.

From a technical perspective, our work centers on developing robust and scalable connectors and integrations between ISV solutions and Microsoft security services, such as Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR. We are seeking candidates with a proven track record in designing and implementing production-grade connectors that enable seamless data ingestion, incident synchronization, and event management. Experience with the Microsoft Sentinel connector and Microsoft Defender XDR-including advanced hunting and bidirectional alert synchronization-is highly desirable. Additionally, expertise in architecting and deploying AI-driven solutions to automate and orchestrate complex security workflows across Microsoft and third-party platforms is a strong advantage.

We prioritize partnerships that inform our product roadmap based on real-world integration requirements, with a focus on APIs and extensibility to ensure every release is scalable and supportable. This approach minimizes custom integration and provides a sustainable path for growth for both Microsoft and our partners. If you are passionate about cybersecurity, possess deep technical expertise in connector and agent development, and have a strong background in Microsoft security product integration, we invite you to join the Microsoft Security CXE team. Together, we can shape the future of secure, intelligent cloud solutions for customers and partners worldwide.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years’ recent experience in Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, or Data Security & Privacy.
• Experience working with Microsoft Security products (Sentinel, Defender XDR) for data ingestion and incident management.
• Experience in API design, cloud architectures, and integrations between Microsoft and third-party platforms.
• Experience with AI-driven security automation (Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate).
• Knowledge of OS internals and security mechanisms.

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:

• Knowledge of OS security mitigations across Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS.
• Expertise in cloud security, identity systems, and threat intelligence.
• Experience in large-scale system administration (Windows/Linux, cloud/network).
• Security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Power BI, Dynamics 365, and security analytics.
• Ability to lead with a strategic vision, and ability to manage complex projects.
• Ability to problem-solve and think strategically.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and manage client/service delivery.
• Ability to adapt messaging for different audiences.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 20th, 2025.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-grade connectors and integrations between Microsoft Security products (such as Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR) and third-party ISV solutions, ensuring seamless data ingestion, incident synchronization, and automated event management.
• Help our engineering teams design scalable extensibility frameworks by prioritizing modular APIs, standardized interfaces and reusable components over fragmented custom solutions, ensuring long-term adaptability and reduced maintenance overhead. This approach minimizes technical debt from one-off integrations.
• Serve as an architecture point of contact into the Microsoft Security engineering teams for select ISVs and be responsible for delivering architecture workshops and design sessions. Collaborate with cross-organization partners to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize investments in alignment with company objectives. Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Proactively anticipate customer needs and market opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Identify patterns across a portfolio of feature areas and define the impact and prioritization of challenges. Leverage data-driven insights to guide decision-making. You will deliver product specific ‘Outside/In’ sessions through a formal feedback program, this provides our PM teams with an external perspective on their feature’s vision, specifications, and architecture – both for the ISV integrating and the customer using the relevant feature/integration.
• Provide thought leadership within the team, addressing challenges and fostering a shared vision. Collaborate effectively to gain alignment and buy-in from group managers and other leaders. Rally the team around a common product direction.
• Collaborate closely with the Feature Product Managers, Business Development, and other customer focused architects to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure successful execution.
• Engage with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and early adopting ISVs and Customers, to gather input and garner support for product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Work with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to define product integration release criteria, customer acquisition strategies, and content creation. Strategize and lead the transition of ISV feature integrations from private preview to public preview and then to general availability.
• Communicate the product strategy to both internal and external audiences using various methods, including conference presentations and collaboration with partner organizations. Build consensus and alignment around the product vision.
• Embody our culture and values

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.