Technical Program Manager II- CISO

• Manage execution of our requests-for-information business processes, ensuring efficient prioritization, tracking, and delivery of intelligence products across Microsoft.
• Drive operational coordination and task management across MSTIC analysis teams. Scope and communicate requirements to analysts to enable effective threat analysis.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, and databases.Develop and maintain operational reporting, dashboards, and metrics to measure workload, performance, customer demand, and business impact.Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and customers to create partnerships while understanding impact, satisfaction, and overall feedback.
• Support operational readiness through process documentation and SOP development.

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:

• 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
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
• 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ 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 of broad experience in cyber security or intelligence
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience with business management systems (Azure Dev Ops, Dynamics 365) and data analysis systems (Power BI, Azure Data Explorer, Kusto Query Language, Tableau, Grafana, etc.).
• Proven ability to synthesize complex technical and business information, create clarity across diverse groups, and drive alignment toward a common objective.
• Written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with analysts, engineering teams, leadership, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an agile and rapidly evolving environment.
• Willingness to learn new approaches to work (with new systems, AI, processes, etc.)

Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

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.

SPEAR actively tracks hundreds of threat actors worldwide spanning nation-state actors, financially motivated actors, private sector actors, and emerging threats. We work with dozens of partner teams internally and dozens of external partners facilitating applied intelligence processes to deliver leading intelligence products. Core to all our impact is our people; working across various disciplines in concert with world-class collections systems and data to identify and track threats, resulting in intelligence production and threat disruption at world-scale.

As a Technical Program Manager II focusing on SPEAR intelligence operations, you will work with our area leads to execute on intelligence operations tasks, requirements, and production needs across all intelligence operations efforts within SPEAR. You will work closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, data engineers, and developers to understand data needs, define data standards, and ensure data quality and security.

You will have the opportunity to organize, define, and maintain tracking across a significant breath of threat intelligence capabilities, ultimately driving clarity internally and improving our ability to have impact on threat actors while serving our valuable intelligence consumers. You will work closely with business stakeholders, intelligence team leads and analysts, data engineers, data compliance professionals and internal consumers of intelligence to ensure we are efficient, accountable, and effective at executing toward our vision of making the world a safer place through timely and actionable cyber threat intelligence.

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.