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Director, Privacy & Business Resilience

Microsoft· Risk Management
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Redmond, WA$130.9k - $277.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Strategic leader to evolve the privacy, data protection, and business resilience program for Microsoft’s commercial operating model. Focus on proactive risk reduction, AI-enabled scale, audit-ready evidence, and credible governance for customers, regulators, and executives in a federated, enterprise-wide risk view.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing team known for sound judgment, customer empathy, risk discipline, and measurable impact.
  • Set clear priorities and accountability, develop exceptional talent, and empower the team to make smart tradeoffs and execute with speed.
  • Lead an integrated, risk-based privacy, data protection, and resilience program that protects data, earns trust, and enables the business to operate at global commercial scale.
  • Turn risk signals into clear priorities, pragmatic mitigation, and timely leadership decisions—strengthening accountability while reducing friction for sales, consulting, and support.
  • Set and deliver an AI-enabled transformation roadmap that simplifies work, improves evidence and risk visibility, and accelerates mitigation.
  • Use Microsoft technologies, automation, and lessons from regulatory change, customer expectations, and audits to build scalable controls and better business outcomes.
  • Lead a federated operating model with clear ownership, coordinated execution, and an enterprise view of risk posture, priorities, and progress.
  • Advise senior leaders with actionable business recommendations and represent a credible narrative for how Microsoft protects data while enabling global sales, consulting, and support.

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Government Intelligence, Security, or Information Technology, AND 6+ years experience in risk management, privacy, security, compliance, intelligence, operations, auditing, and/or finance OR Bachelor’s Degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Government Intelligence, Security, or Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years experience in risk management, privacy, security, compliance, government intelligence, operations, auditing, and/or finance OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Risk managementLeadership / people managementCommunication to executives/stakeholdersRegulatory & privacy knowledge
Nice to have:AI-enabled risk transformation
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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