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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.\nWithin Microsoft Security, the Microsoft Privacy team builds and operates the platforms that help Microsoft understand, govern, and act on data across its products and services. Our work brings together data discovery, classification, inventory, and privacy workflows so teams can manage data responsibly and meet evolving compliance needs. As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape the strategy for our data discovery and governance capabilities, working with engineering and partner teams to improve coverage, data quality, and the experience of bringing new data into the privacy platform. You will have the opportunity to solve complex, cross-company problems and turn privacy requirements into practical product experiences.\nResponsibilities\nDefine the product strategy and roadmap for data discovery, inventory, classification, and governance within the Microsoft Privacy platform.\nLearn from internal partner teams and translate their privacy and data-management needs into clear product requirements and priorities.\nDrive improvements in onboarding and discovery so teams can identify and govern data with less manual effort.\nPartner with engineering and architecture to deliver timely, reliable data and classification signals across Microsoft’s changing data estate.\nWork across privacy, security, compliance, and product teams to align platform capabilities with real-world workflows.\nDefine measures of product success, including adoption, coverage, data quality, and partner experience, and use them to guide decisions.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years’ experience in product/service/project/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience building products for cloud platforms, data infrastructure, or enterprise-scale services.\nFamiliarity with privacy, data governance, metadata, classification, or compliance workflows.\nExperience influencing cross-functional teams and making product tradeoffs amid technical and organizational ambiguity.\nProblem-solving skills with technical proficiency and strategic thinking.\nAbility to innovate at a platform level and drive integrated, end-to-end solutions. \nIAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) certification.\nProduct Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. 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