Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Product Manager. Location: Redmond, Washington, United States

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, minimum 3 days per week in the office

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive product strategy for Microsoft's certificate and secret management platforms.

• Lead large-scale security modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native security platforms.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and service teams to protect cryptographic assets and reduce operational risks.

• Promote secure-by-default capabilities, including hardware-backed key protection, automated certificate lifecycle management, and centralized secret governance.

• Develop and execute roadmaps for cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness across critical services;

• Influence senior leaders and partner organizations to align priorities, investments, and adoption plans.

• Use data and telemetry to identify risks, measure security improvements, and guide product investments.

• Balance customer needs, operational excellence, regulatory requirements, and engineering constraints.

• Lead complex cross-organizational initiatives involving multiple service teams and executive stakeholders.

• Reduce security vulnerabilities and outage risks across Microsoft's service ecosystem;

• Accelerate migration from legacy security infrastructure to modern cloud-native platforms.

• Improve certificate and secret management practices through platform innovation and adoption.

• Support Microsoft's long-term cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness strategy.

• Deliver measurable security improvements benefiting thousands of services and millions of customers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in product, service, or program management, or software development, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 12 years of experience in product, service, or program management, or software development, or equivalent experience.

• At least 4 years of experience bringing a product, feature, or experience to market, including design, product-market fit, and launch.

• At least 6 years of experience improving product metrics, such as customer growth, usage, or retention.

• At least 6 years of experience establishing competitive advantages or replacing established products.

• Several years of product management experience delivering platform, security, infrastructure, or distributed systems products.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and organizations;

• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority and drive execution in ambiguous situations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.

• Experience in cloud security, identity, public key infrastructure (PKI), certificate management, secret management, key management, or cryptography.

• Familiarity with Azure, distributed systems, security infrastructure, or enterprise platform services.

• Experience leading security modernization, compliance, or risk-reduction programs;

• Knowledge of cryptographic agility, TLS, certificate lifecycle management, hardware security modules (HSMs), Key Vault technologies, or post-quantum cryptography.

• Experience with large-scale service operations and reliability programs.

Benefits and Compensation:

• United States base salary: $142,800 to $274,800 per year.

• San Francisco Bay Area and New York City: $188,000 to $304,200 per year.

• Additional benefits and compensation may be available depending on role eligibility.

• Benefits information: Microsoft Corporate Pay and Benefits.

Other Information:

• Job number: 200043123

• Date posted: October 9, 2026

• Profession: Product Management

• Discipline: Product Management

• Role level: Individual Contributor, IC5

• Travel: Less than 25%.

• Application deadline: The position will remain open for at least five days, with applications accepted until the role is filled.

• Equal opportunity: Microsoft provides equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.