Overview
Team Overview:
The mission of the Microsoft CISO Organization is to defend Microsoft, our customers, and our partners from cybersecurity threats. Our strategy is grounded in advanced threat intelligence, proactive threat hunting, resilient security operations, sustainable governance, and use of AI to anticipate, detect, and respond to even the most sophisticated attacks.
The CISO Operations Security Implementation & Capability OSIC team plays a critical role in turning the CISO strategy into reality. OSIC is responsible for scaling, systematizing, and operationalizing cybersecurity initiatives across the CISO Organization and across Microsoft. OSIC ensures that cybersecurity programs are well-designed, consistently executed, measurable, and sustainable at Microsoft’s global scale.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our CISO Operations Security Implementation & Capability OSIC team. You will lead complex, cross-organizational cybersecurity programs from problem definition and planning through execution, adoption, and measurable outcomes. You will translate strategic priorities into clear program plans, operating mechanisms, governance, roadmaps, and success measures; use AI, telemetry, and other evidence to improve decisions and delivery; and manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs amid ambiguity. You will partner with technical, business, and senior leadership stakeholders to build alignment, remove blockers, and drive accountability. Your work will establish repeatable capabilities that strengthen CISO operations and scale effective practices across Microsoft.
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.
Responsibilities
- Translate CISO strategic priorities into executable programs by framing problems, defining outcomes and success measures, establishing governance, mapping dependencies, and creating clear roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Build repeatable processes, automated workflows, and reusable program mechanisms that improve execution across participating teams and can be adopted by adjacent programs.
- Lead complex, cross-organization initiatives by aligning engineering, security, operations, risk and compliance, and leadership around shared goals, decisions, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
- Leverage AI, telemetry, and data-driven insights to improve speed, accuracy, and impact of program decisions, execution, and operating mechanisms.
