Principal Group Product Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings. 

Azure Databases Security and Compliance team is hiring a Principal Group Product Manager to lead strategic security initiatives and data governance strategies across all database products. In this role, you will guide a team of product managers in defining and executing innovative security solutions while ensuring Azure Databases meet the highest standards for compliance and data protection. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud security, drive impactful outcomes, and grow as a leader in a rapidly evolving field. 

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. 

• Provide strategic direction in identifying long-term investment opportunities in security and data governance. 
• Lead our team in planning security investments, functional specs, and driving scenario walkthroughs. 
• Assess and evaluate emerging trends in IT security, information protection, data governance, and A.I. 
• Coach our team of product managers to define business impact of security across the Azure Database organization and establish clearly defined success criteria. 
• Foster a data driven culture in the team by collecting performance metrics and forming hypotheses to measurably improve product development. 
• Promote security with customers at conferences, workshops, and in meetings with analysts.  

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