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Lead Privacy Program Manager

Microsoft· Risk Management
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Redmond, WA$116.9k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor to serve as the Privacy Program Owner and architect for the business spanning global sales, consulting, and technical support within Microsoft’s Trust and Integrity Protection (TrIP) organization. Set strategy and target state for privacy and data protection, assess effectiveness, and lead management of systemic and emerging risk.

Responsibilities

  • Set the program strategy and architecture. Define the vision, priorities, operating model, and multiyear roadmap for privacy and data protection across sales, consulting, and technical support.
  • Own program effectiveness. Establish governance, controls, accountability, metrics, and assurance mechanisms that demonstrate compliance with the Microsoft Privacy Standard and applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and industry requirements.
  • Lead privacy risk management. Identify, aggregate, assess, and prioritize systemic, emerging, and business-specific privacy risks; recommend pragmatic treatments; and drive mitigation through accountable business and technical owners.
  • Translate obligations into scalable solutions. Convert complex privacy requirements into actionable business guidance, technical patterns, control designs, and privacy-by-design practices that teams can implement consistently.
  • Modernize and simplify the program. Use AI, automation, telemetry, and Microsoft technologies to reduce manual effort, strengthen evidence, accelerate risk reduction, and improve the stakeholder experience.
  • Orchestrate a federated privacy model. Align distributed privacy, legal, engineering, risk, compliance, and business teams around common standards, priorities, and outcomes without relying on direct authority.
  • Advise senior leaders. Provide clear, decision-ready insights on risk posture, control effectiveness, regulatory change, investment priorities, and opportunities to enable responsible business growth.
  • Represent the program with credibility. Serve as a trusted privacy authority with customers, auditors, regulators, legal partners, and Microsoft leaders when addressing complex data protection matters.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Program strategy and architectureGovernance and controlsPrivacy risk managementPrivacy-by-designFederated/privacy program orchestrationCommunication with executives

Benefits

  • Microsoft benefits information referenced in job description link: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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