Principal Product Manager
Technology, Data & Digital · Product & Design · Product Management
In short
Microsoft Office's Security Team seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead AI security initiatives, focusing on preventing, detecting, and containing malicious AI instructions. This role involves defining product strategy, execution, and driving customer impact in an evolving threat landscape.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end agent security threat model and translate it into a scalable product strategy.
- Build prevention, guardrails, and containment mechanisms to stop malicious instructions and actions.
- Define data flywheel, evaluations, and threat models to measure residual risk and protection coverage.
- Drive product strategy, roadmap, and execution across multiple partner teams.
- Design user-centric guardrails that balance security with user experience.
- Build trust, momentum, and executive sponsorship across different groups and organizations.
- Operate independently with a get-it-done bias in ambiguous situations.
- Lead through influence, creating clarity and direction for multiple workstreams.
- Communicate with clarity and conviction, tailored to executive audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- Experience shipping security, platform, or infrastructure capabilities.
- Background in threat modeling, application security, service security, or AI/LLM security is a plus.
- 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market.
- 6+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market.
- Track record of setting technical direction adopted by multiple teams, especially in environments without existing playbooks.
- Track record of using metrics and telemetry to prove and improve real-world security posture.
- Demonstrated experience across the full software product development cycle.
- Experience designing user-facing trust, consent, or safety experiences is a plus.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, OR equivalent experience.
- Experience shipping security, platform, or infrastructure capabilities.
- A background in threat modeling, application security, service security, or AI/LLM security is a plus.
- 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.
- A track record of setting technical direction that multiple teams adopted, in an environment where the playbook did not yet exist.
- A track record of using metrics and telemetry to prove and improve real-world security posture.
- Demonstrated experience across the full software product development cycle.
- Experience designing user-facing trust, consent, or safety experiences is a plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI security challenges with significant user impact.
- A fast-paced environment with rapid feedback loops.
- Develop expertise in a highly in-demand field for the agentic era.
- Contribute to Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization.
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Company
Microsoft
Job Posted
4 weeks ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
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