New 
Senior Product Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jan 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Within the larger Security Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) organization, our team builds strategic partnerships with ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to close product gaps, enhance feature areas, and drive innovation. We find and unlock these opportunities by determining which industry leaders to invest in, ensuring product functionalities align, co-launching new technologies and scenarios, and creating a plan to scale adoption. We strive to increase Microsoft's and ISV's product positioning with customers, competitors, and analysts. We also leverage partnerships with ISVs to influence our feature roadmap to ensure APIs are core to feature release, minimizing once-off custom integrations, thus ensuring faster adoption as well as a scalable support path. If you have a passion for cybersecurity, customer/partner relationships, architecture, and product management- bring your talents and experiences to the Microsoft Security Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) team as a Senior Product Manager.
ResponsibilitiesServe as an architecture point of contact into the Microsoft Security engineering teams for select ISVs and be responsible for delivering architecture workshops and design sessions. Collaborate with cross-organization partners to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize investments in alignment with company objectives. Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).Proactively anticipate customer needs and market opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Identify patterns across a portfolio of feature areas and define the impact and prioritization of challenges. Leverage data-driven insights to guide decision-making. You will deliver product specific 'Outside/In' sessions through a formal feedback program, this provides our PM teams with an external perspective on their feature's vision, specifications, and architecture - both for the ISV integrating and the customer using the relevant feature/integration.Provide thought leadership within the team, addressing challenges and fostering a shared vision. Collaborate effectively to gain alignment and buy-in from group managers and other leaders. Rally the team around a common product direction.Collaborate closely with the Feature Product Managers, Business Development, and other customer focused architects to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure successful execution.Engage with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and early adopting ISVs and Customers, to gather input and garner support for product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Work with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to define product integration release criteria, customer acquisition strategies, and content creation. Strategize and lead the transition of ISV feature integrations from private preview to public preview and then to general availability.Communicate the product strategy to both internal and external audiences using various methods, including conference presentations and collaboration with partner organizations. Build consensus and alignment around the product vision.Embody our Culture and Values | |