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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.

The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft's security practices are aligned with the needs and expectations of our customers, partners, and regulators. The Customer Security Management Office (CSMO) is a team within the Office of the CISO that focuses on building trust and transparency with our customers and stakeholders on Microsoft's security posture, capabilities, and practices.

The Global Public Sector Lead is a key role within the CSMO that will drive the strategy and execution of creating a community for global public sector customers, partners, associations, and organizations. The goal of this community is to foster closer alignment and collaboration with Microsoft on security matters, share best practices and insights, and provide feedback and input on Microsoft's security offerings and roadmap.

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

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the security needs, challenges, and opportunities of global public sector, including the regulatory and compliance landscape, the industry trends and innovations, and the customer pain points and expectations.

• Build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders and influencers in the global public sector community, such as industry associations, regulators, standards bodies, customers, partners, and thought leaders.

• Design and deliver programs and initiatives that engage and educate the global public sector community on Microsoft's security practices, capabilities, and CISO office roadmap, such as webinars, workshops, roundtables, newsletters, blogs, podcasts, etc.

• Collect and synthesize feedback and input from the global public sector community on Microsoft's security offerings and CISO office roadmap and communicate to the relevant internal teams and leaders.

• Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration and co-innovation with the global public sector community on security matters, such as joint research, pilots, case studies, white papers, etc.

• Represent Microsoft as a trusted and credible voice on security matters in the global public sector community, such as speaking at events, participating in panels, contributing to publications, etc.

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects

• 8+ years of experience in global public sector, preferably in a security-related role or function.

• Knowledge and expertise on the security landscape, challenges, and solutions for global public sector including the regulatory and compliance requirements, the industry standards and best practices, and the customer needs and expectations.

• Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex and technical concepts in a clear and compelling way to diverse audiences.

Other Requirements:

• Candidates must be able 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:

• Security Clearance Requirements: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customerscreening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Efficient at relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to establish trust and credibility with senior leaders, customers, partners, regulators, and industry peers.

• Efficient at designing and delivering impactful and engaging programs and initiatives that educate, inform, and influence the global public sector community on security matters.

Technical Program Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 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 June 10, 2024.

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