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Principal Technical Program Manager

United States, Redmond 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 16, 2026
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The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Are you interested in protecting millions of customers who rely on Microsoft products and services for mission-critical scenarios? Customers entrust Microsoft with their most sensitive data and resources, and our priority is to keep all of this secure. To do that, we must stay ahead of an ever-evolving attacker landscape and always push the envelope with innovative solutions that work at scale to protect Microsoft's platforms. To that end, we are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to drive security in Microsoft's third-party partner ecosystem. In this role, you'll work closely with our engineering and business counterparts to develop strategies and technical solutions for securing the platforms that our partners use to publish software and engage with customers - ultimately protecting our partners in addition to end customers themselves. If you're interested in a fast-paced environment with enormous opportunity to learn and drive impact, reach out to us today! Microsoft’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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Job Responsibility

  • Drive strategic alignment across engineering and business teams on security enhancements to Microsoft's third-party partner platforms
  • Work with engineering teams to design solutions that meet security goals
  • Work with teams across the security organization to ensure that risks to Microsoft's partner ecosystem are regularly assessed and understood
  • Drive a regular rhythm of business to ensure that teams and leadership remain aligned on progress, challenges, and upcoming work
  • Work with business teams to communicate effectively to external partners and customers about security initiatives in this area

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
  • 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
  • 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
  • 2+ years experience in a cybersecurity role
  • 2+ experience in a role involving development of platforms for third party engagement (e.g. app marketplaces)

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