Overview

The MSec Trust Privacy team helps Microsoft Security build products and services that meet Microsoft privacy requirements, support responsible data use, and maintain customer trust. We partner with engineering, research, legal, privacy, security, and business leaders to translate complex requirements into practical technical and operational solutions. We are looking for a Principal Privacy Technical Program Manager to lead strategic privacy and data governance programs across Microsoft Security. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring deep technical judgment, strong privacy and data governance expertise, and the ability to influence complex decisions across organizational boundaries. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and artificial intelligence. They will help teams address emerging data-use scenarios, operationalize governance requirements, and develop scalable approaches that support security innovation while protecting customer and Microsoft data.

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

• Lead complex, cross-organizational privacy and data-governance programs involving Microsoft Security products, services, research, and data platforms.

• Define and drive governance approaches for the collection, access, use, sharing, retention, transformation, and protection of security-related data.

• Partner with engineering, security research, privacy, legal, compliance, and business teams to evaluate sensitive or novel data-use scenarios and translate requirements into actionable technical guidance.

• Lead privacy and data-governance work for artificial intelligence, including model training, anonymization, de-identification, and differential privacy.

• Develop decision frameworks, standards, playbooks, certifications, and approval processes that make complex privacy requirements clear, repeatable, and auditable.

• Identify systemic privacy and data-governance risks across products and programs, and drive resolution through technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, risk-based recommendations, and leadership escalation.

• Serve as a trusted advisor for high-impact or ambiguous privacy decisions, clearly communicating technical options, tradeoffs, dependencies, and customer or regulatory implications.

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.

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

Qualifications - 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: 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 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

  • OR equivalent 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 translating privacy, legal, regulatory, or policy requirements into technical and operational requirement

• Experience working with engineering, legal, compliance, research, security, or data-science stakeholders on complex technology programs

• Experience with privacy engineering, data protection, responsible artificial intelligence, cybersecurity data, or enterprise data governance.

• Working knowledge of data anonymization, de-identification, differential privacy, tokenization, synthetic data, or privacy-preserving machine-learning methods.

• Experience developing or operationalizing technical standards, governance frameworks, control requirements, certification processes, or risk-acceptance models.

• Ability to communicate technical and regulatory concepts in clear language appropriate for engineering teams, legal and privacy partners, and executive leadership.

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Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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-payThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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