Senior Technical Program Manager

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.  

The CISO 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. The Microsoft Business Security team within the CISO organization focuses on securing Microsoft’s business critical functions within Microsoft’s Sales, Customer Support, Partner Relationship, Marketing and Finance divisions. The team identifies and solves security vulnerabilities in platforms and processes to ensure the security of our customers, partners and our own business critical information. 

We are hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive the identification, governance and mitigation of security risks within the Finance business functions. This role is pivotal in shaping the security posture of financial services at Microsoft, ensuring continued compliance with Microsoft’s security policies, and driving scalable solutions that protect sensitive data and infrastructure. If you thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous environment and are driven to deliver meaningful impact while continuously learning, we’d love to connect with you! 

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

• Partner with Finance, Security, Engineering and others to identify, quantify, prioritize and escalate high-impact security risks to executive leadership 
• Develop and maintain a Finance-specific security risk register, regularly assessing and prioritizing risks to Microsoft's financial operations 
• Collaborate cross-organizationally to design security risk mitigation strategies, technical solutions and process improvements 
• Regularly communicate to a broad set of stakeholders to drive alignment about security priorities and roadmaps 
• Embody our culture and values  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 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. 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Additional or preferred qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development  
• OR equivalent experience. 
• 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos). 

Technical Program 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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       

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 24, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. 

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