Senior Product Manager- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Overview

You’ll work on products with massive scale and impact, shaping capabilities used by enterprise customers across the world.
The team offers a collaborative environment where engineers, designers, and PMs work together with autonomy, trust, and a shared commitment to customer value.
You will have the opportunity to drive complex, cross‑organizational initiatives, influence strategic direction, and meaningfully impact Microsoft’s cloud, AI, and security ecosystem.
We value curiosity, ownership, and strong product craft — and we provide the space, mentorship, and tooling needed for PMs to innovate and grow.
If you enjoy solving sophisticated problems, working across organizational boundaries, and building secure, intelligent, customer‑first experiences, this team is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

Define and drive product strategy for high‑impact, customer‑centric capabilities, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and measurable outcomes.
Lead the end‑to‑end product lifecycle — from problem definition and roadmap creation to execution, validation, and successful customer adoption.
Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, security, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, reliable product experiences.
Apply strong analytical rigor, leveraging advanced analysis skills with any query language across large‑scale data systems to guide prioritization, validate direction, and drive product decisions.
Communicate strategy, risks, and progress to senior leadership using crisp, data‑driven storytelling.
Drive clarity and alignment across teams in highly ambiguous spaces, ensuring the product vision is well understood and continuously refined.
Mentor junior PMs and help elevate product craft, operational excellence, and customer obsession across the team.
Represent customer needs across the organization, ensuring solutions address real‑world enterprise and cloud‑scale problems.

Qualifications

5–7 years of product management experience with end‑to‑end ownership of complex technical products.
Strong history of delivering large‑scale cloud or enterprise features in collaboration with engineering teams.
Demonstrated ability to use large‑dataset analytical techniques (via any query language) to drive product decisions.
Background in distributed systems, enterprise SaaS, or secure cloud services is highly valuable.
Experience shipping or contributing to AI‑powered features or workflows is a significant advantage.
Other Requirements –
A BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a technical equivalent is preferred. Advanced degrees are welcome but not required.
background is cybersecurity / protection products is highly valuable

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.