{"id":3541308,"url":"https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-product-manager-38","title":"Principal Product Manager","company":{"id":18,"name":"Microsoft","domain":"microsoft.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/microsoft","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":438,"ghost_share":0.007,"stale_share":0.594,"repost_share":0.039,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States","Mountain View, United States","New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":142800,"max":274800,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":274800},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"PKI","optional":true}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T13:18:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T10:37:15Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-05T10:37:15Z","days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"OverviewMicrosoft's Experiences & Devices Security organization is seeking a Principal Product Manager to help modernize the security foundations that protect Microsoft 365 and Azure-scale services. This role will shape and execute the strategy for certificate management, secret management, cryptographic modernization, and post-quantum readiness across some of Microsoft's most critical infrastructure.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep product leadership with strong technical intuition, excels at driving alignment across large and diverse stakeholder groups, and has a track record of delivering platform investments that improve security, reliability, and operational excellence at scale.\nThis position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nDefine and drive product strategy for Microsoft's certificate and secret management platforms.\n\nLead large-scale security modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native security platforms.\n\nPartner with engineering, security, compliance, and service teams to improve protection of cryptographic assets and reduce operational risk.\n\nDrive adoption of secure-by-default capabilities including hardware-backed key protection, automated certificate lifecycle management, and centralized secret governance.\n\nDevelop and execute roadmaps for cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness across critical services.\n\nInfluence senior leaders and partner organizations to align on priorities, investments, and adoption plans.\n\nUse data and telemetry to identify risks, measure security posture improvements, and guide product investments.\n\nBalance customer needs, operational excellence, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints to deliver long-term platform outcomes.\n\nLead complex cross-organizational initiatives involving multiple service teams and executive stakeholders.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\n4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).\n6+ 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).\n6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).\nSeveral years of product management experience delivering platform, security, infrastructure, or distributed systems products.\nExperience leading cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations.\nDemonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive execution through ambiguity.\nExperience presenting to senior leadership.\nReduce security and outage risk across Microsoft's service ecosystem.\nAccelerate migration from legacy security infrastructure to modern cloud-native platforms.\nImprove certificate and secret management hygiene through platform innovation and adoption.\nEnable Microsoft's long-term cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness strategy.\nCreate measurable security posture improvements that benefit thousands of services and millions of customers.\nExperience in cloud security, identity, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), certificate management, secret management, key management, or cryptography.\nFamiliarity with Azure, distributed systems, security infrastructure, or enterprise platform services.\nExperience driving security modernization, compliance, or risk reduction programs.\nKnowledge of cryptographic agility, TLS (Transport Layer Security), certificate lifecycle management, HSMs (hardware security models), Key Vault technologies, or post-quantum cryptography.\nExperience working with large-scale service operations and reliability programs.\n#secrets #Security\nProduct Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6388,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Console Games","Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS)","Gaming Consoles","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T19:15:32Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-11-05T10:37:15Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767","filings_12m":6957,"filings_prev_12m":10319,"green_card_filings_12m":2767,"median_offered_wage_usd":167541,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":708}],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":274800,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-product-manager-38","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-product-manager-38.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T21:19:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9618,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":18},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=18"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmicrosoft-principal-product-manager-38"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmicrosoft-principal-product-manager-38"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmicrosoft-principal-product-manager-38"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/microsoft-principal-product-manager-38\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmicrosoft-principal-product-manager-38"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3541308}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"microsoft.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3541308},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}