Product Manager II

Overview Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the frontline of collaboration security, protecting organizations from advanced email, messaging and collaboration-based threats across Microsoft 365. Our team builds the SOC experiences that analysts live in every day, from Incidents & Investigation, Advanced Hunting, and contextual and integrated Threat Intelligence. We stitch those workflows across the broader Defender XDR suite (Microsoft 365, Endpoint, Identity, and Cloud Apps) to help defenders respond holistically. We partner closely with research, data science, and engineering to turn signal into action - triage at scale, rich investigation context, repeatable hunting, and intel‑driven detections. If you’re energized by simplifying complex security operations and creating experiences that help defenders outpace attackers, you’ll feel at home here.

Responsibilities

• You will drive and track success criteria of a feature group. Partners with others to identify AI-informed investment opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and prioritize investments in consultation with cross-functional partners. Collaborates with others to determine features or experiences to prioritize in the roadmap that will support achievement of success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• You will own a portion of the roadmap for a feature group, and will organize scenario walkthroughs to identify problems, system friction, and needed contingencies for a group of features or feature areas. Refine product strategies and roadmaps based on this feedback.
• You will collaborate with Product Marketing, Research and Engineering, to identify product release criteria, customer acquisition, usage, and retention with minimal guidance. Partners with Product Marketing teams by helping build marketing and roll-out plans and/or content such as product overviews, blogs, and landing pages for individual features or smaller products that ladder up to marketing plans for an overall product solution area
• You will partner with others to define and collect performance metrics, monitor deployment, report on progress, and derive insights that lead to productive courses of action to improve product/feature development, iteration, AI integration, and implementation
• You will evangelize the group of supported features/feature areas worked on with internal and external stakeholders, partners, analysts, and customers in the industry via presentations, blog posts, conferences, customer interactions other forums. Acts as a primary interface with Product Marketing to educate on the product and leverages AI to develop content

Qualifications

• Qualifications Required –

Required/minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in security product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience improving security product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 2+ years experience disrupting a market for a security product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

This 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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