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　　The Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Defender is a member of The Partner Programs Team within CxE engages deeply with strategic global partners enabling them to effectively drive deployment, adoption, and usage for customers across our security solutions. We are looking for a customer-focused individual with deep technical knowledge to work directly with global partners on M365 Defender with a specific focus on Microsoft Defender for Office. Come join a team focused on learning from deep technical engagement with partners to both improve our products and accelerate workplace transformation for our customers.

　　Responsibilities

　　Responsibilities:

　　Ecosystem Enablement & Consumption: Partners are at the center of enabling us to scale deployment, adoption, and usage of our security products and in defining our customer’s experience with these services. Use your deep technical subject matter expertise to ready and enable this deployment ecosystem, driving investments to build better products. collaborate with key partners to identify their technical and business requirements, driving the continuous improvement of capabilities at our partners with education on engineering investments and latest technical information partners need in support of our customers.

　　Product & Service Insights: Working with Microsoft Security Engineering teams, use your deep technical knowledge and partner expertise to help guide the future direction of our products and services. Directly influence product roadmap with voice of partner to build better products. Ensuring our partner needs are understood and evangelized throughout the engineering organization as part of the development lifecycle is critical to our long-term business growth.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　2+ years of experience with security technologies working to deliver and/or support customers/partners through modern transformation programs.

　　2+ years of experience in deep technical ability and product knowledge in M365 Defender and specifically Microsoft Defender for Office [MDO].

　　5+ years of experience in cross-group, cross-functional engineering roles

　　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 thereafterAdditional Qualifications

　　Ability to forge trusted relationships with MS Partners [Business Decision Makers, CSOs and IT Leaders]; to represent Engineering and drive understanding of our solutions/services.

　　Dedication to enabling great partner experiences and an outstanding customer satisfaction track record. Direct experience working with Microsoft Partners is highly desired.

　　Technical curiosity and aptitude to quickly understand service capabilities, technical issues, and partner needs.

　　Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, across all functions from business to technical, and across multiple geographies.

　　Experience in identifying technical gaps and advocating on behalf of the customer to make products stronger and a track record driving the prioritization of a backlog based on actual customer evidence.

　　Flexibility and experience building out scalable programs.

　　Ability to work independently

　　Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

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