Senior Product Manager Threat Protection Events, Research and Roadmap

As businesses transform digitally, cyber security is increasingly important at all levels within our customer base. This represents an opportunity for Microsoft to both protect customers and grow what is already a substantial business . To meet these needs, Microsoft delivers a unified security operations platform that spans product categories such as SIEM, XDR, and posture and has built-in AI with Copilot for Security . The charter of our team is to manage this product portfolio to drive business growth and protect customers.

Our high performing, collaborative marketing members are individually brilliant, love working with each other, and we deeply value both a positive team dynamic and embrace diverse perspectives and approaches to help all of us learn, grow, and deliver better business outcomes. We embrace trying new things and learn from any outcome.

As the Senior Product Manager, Threat Protection Events, Research and Roadmap , you will play a central role responsible for in many ways bringing the team together. You will own the roadmap not just for my team but for the broader security organization , not just bringing together that information but using it to ensure we have storylines across team and clarity around upcoming deliverables. You will own events including our team’s presence in the big first party events like Ignite and RSA as well as the tours around the world and you will also help orchestrate direct to subsidiary customer visits . You will also own our research approach including the product tracker and represent in broader work. Along the journey there is the opportunity to own specific marketing projects – the prior team member worked on ransomware and copilot for security . This will vary based on need across the team and bandwidth. You will get deeply immersed in the security space and gain tremendous insights from the marketers around you. This role is an ideal setup for a later career move to a Product Manager on a specific security product if that is of interest .

To get this done you are focused on the customer and business outcomes, you are great at cross-group collaboration because bringing people together is a core part of this role, you are a natural listener and simplifier, you are super organized, and you are always looking for ways to improve or reinvent the status quo.

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

• Roadmap for the security all up and partner with broader cross functional team on the SCI roadmap.

• Research including product tracker participating in presentations out and ensuring data that is collected is utilized for both understanding and better marketing.

• Events including our presence in 1st party events Ignite, Secure, AI tour), specific customer subsidiary visits that drive a deeper relationship with the subsidiaries and a deeper understanding of market needs, and 3rd party events such as RSA.

• You partner with a broad cross functional team at the SCI level.

• Additional projects balanced by your growth and business needs.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business

• OR Master's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business

• OR equivalent experience

• Experience in communicating, presenting, orchestrating, influencing and organizing across broad organizational groups, internal teams, customers & diverse stakeholders

• Experience bringing together cross-functional teams through messaging & understanding of technology

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business

• OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business

• OR equivalent experience

• Knowledge of one or more Microsoft applications

• Excellent communication skills, high degree of accountability with willingness to take measured risks and set bold goals

• Capability to structure and organization complex problems and work across group to lead others forward

• Drive for results and action-oriented

• Ability to understand or grow an understanding of Microsoft’s security portfolio

• Understanding of marketing principles

• Ability to analyze and diagnose complex product and business challenges, formulate solutions, and then motivate the broader organization to pragmatic action

• Desire to be involved in a development stage business with an entrepreneurial bias

• Proven capability to develop working relationships with customers, senior executives, engineering teams, and other product and marketing groups across Microsoft

• The ability to drive with autonomy in a high-visibility environment

• Ability to collaborate across org boundaries

• Knowledge of how enterprises buy and use commercial applications

• MBA preferred

Product Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 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 $133,700 - $219,200 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 September 26, 2024.

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .