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Principal PM Manager

Microsoft· Product Management
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India - HyderabadFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Product leader overseeing a portfolio within Microsoft Defender for Office 365, focusing on protection across Microsoft 365, with end-to-end product lifecycle ownership, shaping strategy, and delivering measurable customer outcomes in the MDO portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop product managers through coaching, clear expectations and accountability.
  • Model Microsoft's Model, Coach, Care leadership culture to create growth and high performance.
  • Partner with capacity and resource teams to align skills to work.
  • Own onboarding, ongoing feedback, career growth, and provide managers with performance insights.
  • Own the overall health, quality and success of a product line and its features in the MDO portfolio, including strategy, roadmap, delivery and customer outcomes.
  • Set direction and priorities, trade-offs, scope, sequencing and quality.
  • Ensure delivery excellence through Microsoft methodologies, quality standards and governance.
  • Engage with customer executives and steering committees to remove blockers, build trust and drive results.
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders across groups and with business planning, marketing, sales, customer success, support and finance.
  • Manage relationships with third-party companies and identify opportunities to expand engagements and partnerships.
  • Define and own the multi-year strategy for the product line and ensure coherence with the Defender suite.
  • Translate threat landscape and customer signals into a product direction and refresh it as needed.
  • Create a sequenced, fundable roadmap with bets, trade-offs and OKRs.
  • Build the business case for investment, size opportunity, define success metrics, defend the plan in leadership forums.
  • Influence adjacent product strategies across XDR, identity, endpoint and data to strengthen the platform.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years in security.
  • Experience leading product managers as a manager or area lead with a track record of growing people.
  • Proven end-to-end ownership of a product line or major area from strategy to shipping and business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated success engaging senior customer stakeholders and executives, translating conversations into product direction and blockers resolution.
  • Strong cross-group influence to align engineering, design, research, marketing, sales, support and finance around a shared plan without direct authority.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; data-driven by default.
  • Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated use and adoption of AI in real-life product practices and applying AI agents/tools for research, analysis, prototyping and decision-making.
  • Advantage: hands-on background in email and collaboration security, threat detection, SOC workflows or XDR.
  • Advantage: experience operating at scale across multiple product areas and distributed teams.
  • Advantage: BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field; MBA a plus.

Skills

Required:Product lifecycle managementLeadership and team developmentStrategic thinking and roadmapping
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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