Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • $142K — $274K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, OR equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 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.
  • 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market.
  • 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive product strategy for certificate and secret management platforms.
  • Lead large-scale security modernization initiatives, migrating from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native security platforms.
  • Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and service teams to enhance protection of cryptographic assets.
  • Drive adoption of secure-by-default capabilities, including automated certificate lifecycle management.
  • Develop and execute roadmaps for cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness.
  • Influence senior leaders to align priorities and adoption plans.
  • Use data and telemetry to identify risks and guide product investments.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on industry-leading security technologies and frameworks.
  • Ability to influence core security strategy at a major tech company.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-organizational initiatives.
  • Access to continuous professional development and training.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native security platforms.
Full Job Description
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.

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.


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.
  • Written and verbal communication skills with 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, 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, certificate lifecycle management, HSMs, 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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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