Overview
The Cloud & AI 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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Are you passionate about security and driving risk reduction for hundreds of millions of users across the world? The Microsoft Red Team (MRT)’s mission is to emulate real-world and next-generation adversaries by identifying security vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s systems, products, and services—before they are exploited.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own Risk Management for the Microsoft Red Team. You will support a global team to ensure all findings identified by MRT’s core functions are tracked and fed into the broader risk management programs across Microsoft. You will be responsible for analyzing MRT’s portfolio of disclosed findings and collaborating with technical SMEs to derive deep insights into top risk areas and support conversations with executive leadership and stakeholders.
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
- Creates relationships and rhythm to drive orchestration and integration efforts with internal teams and partners.
- Develops and implements processes for large and complex cross-functional programs, solutions, services, or integrated systems.
- Collaborates and coordinates across organizations to ensure alignment on program management, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible.
- Documents, advises, and trains MRT personnel on filing procedures for findings of various types.
- Audits loop closure related activities; takes action to rectify discrepancies.
- Collects performance metrics (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs] such as bug closure rate), monitors and reports on progress (e.g., business reviews), and derives deep insights that lead to productive courses of action to improve loop closure and risk reduction.
- Advocates for security change across the company by building partnerships and clearly communicating the impact of risks.
- Embodies our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in cybersecurity, offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing or related domains.
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Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
