Senior Security Program Manager

Job Description

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. 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 Threat Intelligence engineering team works across Microsoft Security to provide world class threat intelligence and hunting capabilities directly to our security researchers and analysts powering Microsoft's entire security suite of products with their insights. Our team works with massive data sets, as well as Microsoft-created and curated content to provide the context and insights our customers have come to rely on. All this is underpinned by a range of engineering systems from ad hoc tooling stood up in response to the latest emerging threats to production services connected to customer-facing security solutions. We are seeking a seasoned Security Program Manager to advance MSTIC’s R&D programs, driving initiatives aimed at identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security threats to Microsoft and our customers. You will focus both on increasing our analysts’ productivity and increasing the impact that we derive from the intelligence that we generate.

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

• Work directly with intelligence analysts from across Microsoft's research ecosystem to gather, curate, and prioritize the most important problems to solve on behalf of our researchers.
• Always keeping our end customer's goals and mission in mind.
• Develop subject matter expertise in the workflows our analysts use to gain insights, publish content, etc.
• Deep expertise in security principles, with a focus on threat intelligence and security research methodologies.
• Connect analyst workflows to AI opportunities.
• Partner with Engineering to drive a complete Product-team approach to solving problems.
• Ensure our engineers always know the 'what' and 'why' behind the work they do, and empower them to be part of the solution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or an equivalent experience.
• Substantial experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on security research and program management.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop and execute research & development strategies that support product development objectives.
• Experience with defining and tracking OKRs and KPIs to measure program performance.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Customer feedback and data driven.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starter, “getting things done” attitude.

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.

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