Microsoft

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years experience in product/service/project management or software development.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft's security screening requirements, including passing a background check.
  • Preferred experience in identity or security products.
  • Experience with Generative AI tools for product development is desirable.
  • Ability to quickly understand and engage with new technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Anticipate customers' needs and identify market opportunities for the Entra Core Authentication Platform.
  • Build comprehensive product experiences across teams and divisions.
  • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights and support product initiatives.
  • Align product roadmap with team objectives and performance indicators.

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge technology and work on impactful products.
  • Opportunity to influence Microsoft's Zero Trust vision.
  • Exposure to AI-driven transformations in cybersecurity.
  • Work in a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Engagement with a diverse group of stakeholders, including senior leadership.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking to hire a Senior Product Manager on the Core Authentication Platform team. As organizations accelerate their digital transformations and embrace AI, securing authentication is foundational to protecting their people, data, resources, and AI agents. In this role, you will define the product strategy and roadmap for securing authentication sessions and protocols across Microsoft Entra, helping customers confidently manage access in an evolving threat landscape - including the emerging world of AI-driven workloads. You will partner with engineering, engage with customers and partners, and drive new products that advance Microsoft's Zero Trust vision. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of the AI transformation - learning new skills, helping redesign roles and responsibilities in the new AI era, and ensuring that authentication remains the cornerstone of modern security for billions of users and AI agents worldwide. Join a team where your work directly protects over a billion users and the next generation of AI agents. The Core Authentication Platform team sits at the heart of Microsoft's identity and security story - every authentication decision we make has global impact. You'll tackle some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry, from hardening auth protocols to securing AI-driven workloads at massive scale.

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Responsibilities
  • Anticipates customers' unmet needs and market opportunities for enhancements to Entra Core Authentication Platform.
  • Demonstrates and builds enterprise-grade product experiences across team & divisional boundaries.
  • Influences and drives engagement with cross-functional internal partnerships, external partners, including early adopting customers, senior leadership, and other key stakeholders to gather input and garner support for product plans and roadmap.
  • Ensures alignment between the roadmap with the team's Objective & Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/project/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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Identity or security product experience preferred.
  • Track record of going technically deep and quickly ramping up on new technologies.
  • Desirable to have experience using Generative AI tools to improve product development & product experiences.


Product 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

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

About Microsoft

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
NASDAQ
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