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Principal Strategy and Planning Leader

Microsoft· Business Management
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Redmond, WA$130.9k - $277.2kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Principal Strategy and Planning Leader within the Engineering organization at Microsoft Security, responsible for translating MSEC strategy into execution at scale, driving cross-portfolio initiatives, and shaping priorities with executive-level influence to build AI-first security capabilities and enable leadership decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with MSEC Engineering leadership to translate company and MSEC strategy into executable engineering priorities
  • Lead annual and multi-year strategic planning processes, including investment framing, roadmap alignment, and scenario modeling
  • Develop clear strategic narratives, business cases, and tradeoff analyses to inform LT-level decisions
  • Identify emerging opportunities and influence strategic direction
  • Own and drive end-to-end execution of high-impact, cross-division initiatives
  • Align dependencies across product teams, engineering, research, and GTM
  • Establish clear ownership models (DRIs), milestones, and success metrics
  • Proactively identify risks, unblock execution, and escalate decision points to leadership
  • Ensure initiatives stay focused on customer outcomes vs. organizational boundaries
  • Define and operationalize planning cadences (quarterly reviews, engineering reviews, strategy checkpoints)
  • Partner with engineering leaders to ensure alignment across PM, Dev, UX, and CxE in delivering AI-first security solutions
  • Drive clarity on prioritization, tradeoffs, and resource allocation
  • Track progress via KPIs, OKRs, and operational dashboards
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to Engineering LT and MSEC leadership
  • Create executive-ready materials (strategy decks, LT updates, narratives)
  • Facilitate decision-making forums, including Engineering Reviews and cross-org alignment sessions
  • Represent Engineering strategy in cross-company forums (e.g., product, field, and strategy teams)
  • Leverage data, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to drive strategic insights
  • Benchmark performance and identify gaps in execution, quality, or customer impact
  • Improve operating model, governance, and execution discipline across engineering org

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Strategic planningExecutive communicationCross-org program managementData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Refer to company benefits as listed by Microsoft (see career page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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