Director of Product Management- MDE

• Own product strategy & vision — Define and communicate a compelling long-term vision and multi-year strategy for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ensuring MDE remains the world's best endpoint protection solution and the anchor of the Microsoft Defender business.
• Lead and grow a global PM organization — Manage, mentor, and develop a team of product managers across the Redmond, Tel Aviv, and Hyderabad hubs, fostering a high-performance, customer-obsessed culture.
• Own the roadmap & drive execution — Set and deliver the MDE roadmap end-to-end, partnering closely with engineering, design, research, and threat-intelligence teams to ship high-quality capabilities on time and at global scale.
• Lead customer & analyst relationships — Act as a senior product voice with enterprise customers, CISOs, and industry analysts (e.g., Gartner, Forrester), turning their needs and feedback into product direction and strengthening MDE's market leadership.
• Own the competitive narrative — Define how MDE wins against the endpoint-security competitive set, shaping positioning, differentiation, and the go-to-market story in partnership with marketing.
• Drive cross-Microsoft integration — Partner horizontally at the highest levels across M365, Windows, Azure, Microsoft AI, and the internal Digital and CISO organizations, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with Sentinel, Defender XDR, Entra, Purview, and Intune to ensure MDE is a seamlessly integrated part of Microsoft's comprehensive security offering.
• Establish metrics & accountability — Set clear OKRs and success measures (growth, adoption, protection efficacy, customer satisfaction), and use data to prioritize investments and report progress to senior leadership.
• Represent MDE externally — Serve as a credible spokesperson for Microsoft's endpoint-security approach in customer engagements, industry forums, and executive briefings.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.
• Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 8+ 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).
• 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g.,. competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Demonstrated product leadership in endpoint security, EDR/XDR, or threat protection (e.g., Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto), with deep understanding of the modern threat landscape — ransomware, advanced persistent threats, and the adversary tactics enterprises defend against.
• Proven ability to engage credibly with CISOs, SOC/security-operations teams, threat researchers, and security engineers, translating real-world defender needs into product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Sufficient technical fluency in endpoint architecture, detection-and-response, and security efficacy to "go deep" with engineering and threat-research teams on hard trade-offs — paired with the strategic instincts to run a multi-billion-dollar business.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.