Principal Technical Program Manager

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.

Are you excited by the possibility to make one of the world's most crucial security systems better? Do you want to innovate quickly and improve how Microsoft measures itself and aligns resources to the most important features and performance gaps? Do you like to learn about products across the entire security ecosystem? Can you stay current with security related AI product releases?  This may be an opportunity for you. 

The security team seeks a motivated, experienced Principal Technical Security Program Manager to join our benchmarking team. We are looking for someone who can dig into hard engineering problems, measure the core fundamentals of our systems, evaluate exciting new features, and drive executive reviews at the most senior levels. 

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. 

• Investigate, analyze, and measure security products effectiveness and performance against alternative solutions. 
• Collaborate with multiple product teams to design and implement repeatable measurements using a data-driven approach capable of measuring the full stack including AI elements. 
• Collaborate with data science teams to understand and identify detection gaps, capabilities, assumptions, and improvements. 
• Be involved in customer conversations to identify opportunities, gaps and concerns. 
• Work directly on security reviews, complex automation coding and approval workflows across multiple teams. 
• Identifying the “top” customer pain points in UX using multiple techniques to acquire the data. 
• Study security products to understand and communicate dependencies and utilization/limits of underlying resource capabilities. 
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop a world class multi-cloud performance framework and reporting system. 
• Acts as a technical advisor to educate and evangelize competitive strengths and weaknesses across divisional boundaries.  
• Experienced writer and technical content presenter to all audiences and technical levels. 
• Embody our and