The Trust Experience and Compliance (TEC) team’s mission is to make Windows the most trusted platform for your business and life. The Windows Compliance Platform team within TEC is establishing a new effort to re-envision what compliance should be for engineering teams at Microsoft.

The Compliance Program Manager II will be collaborating with the team to define controls, tooling, compliance tasks, and strategy for sustained compliance programs in Windows. You will gain an understanding of laws, regulations, and policies that impact the Windows organization and you will lead complex projects to ensure successful compliance for each Windows feature.

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

• Strategies, Processes, and Tools

• Collaborates with the team on a strategy and process around compliance programs with some instruction. Executes on new areas of focus that are needed based on the risk environment and ecosystem with guidance.

• Assists with requirements for building out tools and processes needed to develop products that are market-leading in compliance with peer input.

• Uses tools to execute compliance tasks with minimal guidance. Consult/Advise/Educate

• Collaborates across teams to ensure communication and application of the same regulations and standards. Advises whether products, processes, programs, etc., are compliant. Educates teams on compliance requirements. Reviews results, informal assessments, and monitors compliance for teams. Translates compliance standards and processes into a relatable form across multiple teams. Controls

• Tests controls to determine if controls are effective and identify areas to improve the controls with basic guidelines. Makes suggestions on how to adjust the design with minimal guidance and insight from others.

• Collaborates with the team to define controls by identifying potential failure points. Ensures routine issues are fixed during the design process with minimal guidance. Governance

• Uses understanding of policies, laws, and regulations to make own judgments to meet business need. May interpret the information to protect Microsoft and customers, and move the business forward. Identifies and escalates non-conformance. Sets individual program guidelines at an organization level based on corporate policies and guidelines. Drive required compliance and regulatory reviews to ensure compliance readiness. Reporting

• Performs data checks for quality that contributes to reporting on compliance metrics, audit outcomes, etc., for internal and external reporting. Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years' experience in business, legal/regulatory, compliance, audit/consulting firm

• OR equivalent experience

• 1+ year technical project management skills, with a track record of successfully delivering complex compliance programs.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in business, legal/regulatory, compliance, audit/consulting firm

• OR Master's Degree in Science, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in business, legal/regulatory, compliance, audit/consulting firm

• OR equivalent experience.

• Relevant Certification (e.g., International Organization for Standardization [ISO] Lead Auditor, International Association of Privacy Professionals [IAPP], Certified Public Accountant [CPA], Certified Information Privacy Professional [CIPP]).

Compliance IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $75,100 - $148,900 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 $98,800 - $163,300 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.

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