Overview

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.

Our team owns some of the most critical components of Microsoft’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ecosystem, enabling customers to protect sensitive data across billions of daily interactions. We are responsible for DLP Policy Management, agentic/AI-assisted policy experiences, DLP on Exchange (processing over 3 billion emails per day), Outlook Policy Tips, and helping enterprises migrate from third-party DLP solutions to Microsoft’s platform. We build highly scalable, reliable, and intelligent systems that help organizations detect, prevent, and remediate data risks in real time. Our work spans deep backend engineering, large-scale distributed systems, UX-driven workflows, and AI/agentic automation that simplifies policy authoring and management for global enterprises.

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.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a fast-learning, highly motivated Product Manager to lead key areas across Microsoft’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the engineering strategy and execution for DLP Policy Management, agentic experiences, DLP on Exchange at massive scale (processing 3+ billion emails every day), Outlook Policy Tips, and onboarding customers migrating from other DLP providers to Microsoft’s platform. Beyond strong technical depth, you should bring a passion for innovation, reliability, and user-focused design. You will operate in a fast-paced security domain, exploring new problem spaces and thinking ahead to ensure our systems stay resilient, scalable, and enterprise-ready. You will lead investigations in complex areas and deliver features end-to-end—from architecture, design, and coding to deployment, performance, telemetry, and quality. Key Responsibilities: Lead and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering team working across DLP policy management, Exchange DLP, agentic experiences, and Outlook integrations. Define product strategy and influence business metrics across DLP adoption, customer onboarding, system performance, and service reliability. Architect and deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend and distributed systems capable of supporting billions of email policy evaluations per day. Make strategic design decisions grounded in deep understanding of customer needs, data patterns, and long-term architectural direction. Consistently contribute innovative ideas to improve DLP policy authoring experiences, agentic workflows, and enterprise security posture. Use metrics, telemetry, and data-driven insights to continuously improve service quality, stability, and end-user experience. Demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and pride in delivering high-quality DLP experiences end-to-end across the product lifecycle. Collaborate closely with globally distributed teams—engineering, PM, UX, data science, and partner organizations—to drive improvements across backend systems and customer experiences. Work as part of an agile, cross-disciplinary team building forward-looking capabilities that protect customer data at cloud scale.

Our team owns some of the most critical components of Microsoft’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ecosystem, enabling customers to protect sensitive data across billions of daily interactions. We are responsible for DLP Policy Management, agentic/AI-assisted policy experiences, DLP on Exchange (processing over 3 billion emails per day), Outlook Policy Tips, and helping enterprises migrate from third-party DLP solutions to Microsoft’s platform. We build highly scalable, reliable, and intelligent systems that help organizations detect, prevent, and remediate data risks in real time. Our work spans deep backend engineering, large-scale distributed systems, UX-driven workflows, and AI/agentic automation that simplifies policy authoring and management for global enterprises.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience in Product Management, Program Management, or Technical Product Ownership, preferably in security, privacy, compliance, or enterprise platforms.
Strong understanding of security concepts, such as:Data protection, access control, identity, encryption, threat modeling, or compliance (e.g., GDPR, DLP, audit, governance).
Proven experience working with engineering teams to deliver end-to-end product features, from ideation through launch and iteration.
Ability to translate customer and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data, telemetry, and customer insights to drive decisions.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, design, security, compliance, and operations teams.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate product vision and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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