Principal UX Product Manager

Overview

We are a team of product designers, UX researchers, content designers, and technical writers. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we design product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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.

We are looking for a Principal UX Product Manager to drive strategic thinking and coordination across Security product teams and to partner closely with our UX team to ensure that UX investments are prioritized and to ensure we are building repeatable patterns that can be leveraged across products. This PM will also help us accelerate our production pace and raise the quality bar across our Security products by shaping how we measure, track, and report quality to our senior leadership.

Security Copilot empowers defenders to detect hidden patterns, harden defenses, and respond to incidents faster with generative AI. The same platform also empowers IT Admins and Data Security admins to proactively protect the assets. Our goal is to deliver these experiences across products in a coherent fashion, ultimately producing a familiar experience customers love.

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

Responsibilities:

• Understand security for customers and markets

• Drive strategic user experience clarity across product areas and influence partner organizations through thought leadership

• Develop UX strategy and build buy-in from cross-functional teams into your ideas by developing strong partnerships

• Translate strategic plans into work involving cross-team collaboration

• Partner with the UX team and across product teams to deliver on our coherence mission

• Develop clear requirements and work closely with the software engineering team to meet product goals

• Track and drive coherence across the Security Division portfolio

• Mentor other Product Managers and scale influence across product and go-to-market strategy

• Lead the execution of strategic initiatives you've championed

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

• Qualification
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years' 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  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).
  • Ability to deliver rapid, customer-centric outcomes in emerging AI spaces while staying grounded in focus and clarity amidst the noise of evolving agentic trends.
  • Demonstrated ability leading complex initiatives at scale
  • Extensive experience driving user experiences in an enterprise space

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.

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

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.