Principal Product Manager

Overview

Microsoft's Experiences & Devices Security organization is seeking a Principal Product Manager to help modernize the security foundations that protect Microsoft 365 and Azure-scale services. This role will shape and execute the strategy for certificate management, secret management, cryptographic modernization, and post-quantum readiness across some of Microsoft's most critical infrastructure.

The ideal candidate combines deep product leadership with strong technical intuition, excels at driving alignment across large and diverse stakeholder groups, and has a track record of delivering platform investments that improve security, reliability, and operational excellence at scale.

This position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.

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

• Define and drive product strategy for Microsoft's certificate and secret management platforms.

• Lead large-scale security modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native security platforms.

• Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and service teams to improve protection of cryptographic assets and reduce operational risk.

• Drive adoption of secure-by-default capabilities including hardware-backed key protection, automated certificate lifecycle management, and centralized secret governance.

• Develop and execute roadmaps for cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness across critical services.

• Influence senior leaders and partner organizations to align on priorities, investments, and adoption plans.

• Use data and telemetry to identify risks, measure security posture improvements, and guide product investments.

• Balance customer needs, operational excellence, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints to deliver long-term platform outcomes.

• Lead complex cross-organizational initiatives involving multiple service teams and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).

• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

• Several years of product management experience delivering platform, security, infrastructure, or distributed systems products.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive execution through ambiguity.

• Experience presenting to senior leadership.

• Reduce security and outage risk across Microsoft's service ecosystem.

• Accelerate migration from legacy security infrastructure to modern cloud-native platforms.

• Improve certificate and secret management hygiene through platform innovation and adoption.

• Enable Microsoft's long-term cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness strategy.

• Create measurable security posture improvements that benefit thousands of services and millions of customers.

• Experience in cloud security, identity, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), certificate management, secret management, key management, or cryptography.

• Familiarity with Azure, distributed systems, security infrastructure, or enterprise platform services.

• Experience driving security modernization, compliance, or risk reduction programs.

• Knowledge of cryptographic agility, TLS (Transport Layer Security), certificate lifecycle management, HSMs (hardware security models), Key Vault technologies, or post-quantum cryptography.

• Experience working with large-scale service operations and reliability programs.

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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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