Director, Technical Program Management, Security & Risk

Job description

Are you passionate about driving business transformation and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of marketing at Microsoft?

Do you thrive at the intersection of business strategy, technical depth, and platform-scale problem-solving?

If so, we invite you to join us in a critical leadership role.

Marketing at Microsoft sits at the strategic apex of the company, connecting product, sales, and customer engagement, relying on innovative technology, engines, and data to drive transformation and breakthrough results.

As Director, Technical Program Management, Security & Risk, you will lead a strategic transformation program that enables Marketing teams to innovate safely and with agility, building and operating secure-by-design and secure-by-default services at scale.

Your mission is to embed trust, integrity, and resilience into the very fabric of Marketing’s data and platform ecosystem, enabling every signal, system, and service to operate with confidence at scale.

You’ll design for durability from the start, engineer for continuity under pressure, and ensure that our most sensitive assets, our data, our insights, and our relationships, are safeguarded as a foundational design principle.

This work isn’t a gate or guardrail - it’s the enabler of bold, agile innovation, unlocking the full ambition of Frontier Marketing.

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**

+ **Secure Innovation:** Champion Marketing’s position as the company’s leader in Secure practices, driving speed, agility, and trust across every business and technical domain.

Your work will enable Marketing teams to innovate boldly, knowing that security and compliance are seamlessly woven into every service, dataset, and customer experience
+ **Strategic Transformation:** Lead the transformation of Marketing’s security and risk management practices, championing a culture of accountability, clarity, and business leadership.

Accelerate the evolution from reactive compliance to proactive, durable controls, enabling Marketing to remain the company’s showcase for Secure Future Initiative practices, speed, and agility
+ **People Management:** Build, lead, and inspire a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Engineers, fostering a culture of empowerment, innovation, and customer focus.

Model, coach, and care to deliver success through accountability and clarity
+ **Business Leadership:** Serve as the bridge between business teams and security engineering, deeply understanding business strategy and needs, and translating them into technical requirements and security controls.

Partner with Marketing senior leadership, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Privacy, Audit, and Responsible AI teams to align on shared goals and amplify impact.
+ **Operational Agility:** Reduce toil and overhead across teams by creating clarity around policy, best practices for managing infrastructure and data, and simplifying compliance.

Drive automation and centralized capabilities to close cross-team security gaps, streamline incident response, and scale best practices across all of Marketing.
+ **Data Protection:** Lead the implementation of robust data protection controls across a multi-petabyte distributed ecosystem, ensuring consistent classification, tagging, and access management across Marketing’s data estate.

Collaborate with Marketing Data Engineering and Product teams to protect our data while unlocking the data agility required to realize the Frontier Marketing vision.
+ **Clarity and Simplicity:** Lead the charge to reduce complexity and overhead for every team.

By creating clarity around policy, best practices, and security requirements, you’ll make compliance understandable and actionable, freeing teams to move faster and with confidence.
+ **Other:** Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

**Qualifications**

**Required/Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
+ 1+ years people management experience.
+ 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
+ 6+ years of experience in technical program management, cybersecurity, or risk management
+ Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)) and modern data architectures

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years people management 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).
+ Experience with global security and privacy regulations
+ Experience working with legal, privacy, audit, and compliance teams
+ Experience translating business needs into technical solutions and security controls
+ Industry certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or similar.
+ Experience in threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response

Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 25, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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