Senior Product Manager
Microsoft · Posted Oct 6
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Defender for Office 365 product group owns the protection experience for email and collaboration across Microsoft 365, spanning real-time detection, post-delivery response and recovery, investigation and hunting, and pre-breach capabilities as part of the Microsoft XDR portfolio. The team works at the intersection of protection efficacy, explainability and everyday usability for SOC analysts, email administrators and end users, with product and engineering located in IDC and ILDC within the Defender global team. This Senior Product Manager role owns a feature area end to end, shaping requirements, roadmap and success metrics while partnering with engineering, design, customers and cross-functional teams across the Defender suite.
What you will do
- Own a feature area within Defender for Office 365 end to end. Define the problem, shape the requirements, build the backlog, and partner with engineering and design to drive execution to a shipped, measured result.
- Contribute to the area's strategy and roadmap in partnership with the area lead, translating product direction into a concrete plan you can deliver.
- Work directly with customers and partners, listen, validate, and turn what you hear into product decisions and roadmap input.
- Define and track success criteria for your area. Be data-driven: instrument what you ship, analyze usage, and act on what the data tells you about adoption and quality.
- Partner with marketing, business planning, customer success and support to land releases well. Documentation, readiness, outbound messaging and post-launch feedback loops.
- Work across the Defender suite, collaborating with XDR, identity, endpoint and data teams.
- Analyze customer and market signals, telemetry and support data to identify unmet needs and opportunities in your area. Evaluate trade-offs and prioritize with your cross-functional partners.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4+ years of experience as a product manager, including 2+ years in security products for Enterprise organization.
- Proven track record of shipping software products or services and owning them after launch.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; comfortable working from data.
- Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
- Great listener with genuine customer empathy and the ability to identify real needs behind stated requests.
- Team player, confident, independent, curious and enthusiastic.
- BA/BSc in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Preferred qualifications
- Advantage: hands-on background in email security, threat detection, SOC workflows or XDR.
- Advantage: experienced in deep-tech security products for large enterprises.
- Advantage: BA/BSc in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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