Senior Product Manager

Overview

The Defender for Office 365 product group owns the protection experience for email and collaboration across Microsoft 365.

The product management team drives end-to-end ownership across the product lifecycle, partnering with groups and stakeholders across the organization and directly with customers and partners.

As part of Microsoft XDR, the product spans real-time detection, post-delivery response and recovery, investigation and hunting, and pre-breach capabilities.

The team owns one of the largest security solutions in the XDR portfolio and helps shape how communication and productivity security will work in an era of AI-powered social engineering, using AI to strengthen detection and making MDO the trusted entry point into the broader Defender suite.

The group works at the intersection of protection efficacy, explainability and everyday usability, serving SOC analysts, email administrators and end users alike. Product and engineering are located in IDC and ILDC, as part of the Defender global team.

Responsibilities

Product Manager — Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Are you a product manager who wants to own a product that protects organizations every single day Are you ready to work where security, AI and everyday productivity tools meet Come work with us at the largest security company in the world, on one of its most broadly deployed products.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects email and collaboration across Microsoft 365. It is part of the Microsoft XDR portfolio, delivering real-time detection, post-delivery response and recovery, investigation and hunting for SOC analysts and email administrators, along with pre-breach posture and risk reduction. Attackers are shifting from recognizable malicious artifacts toward adaptive, multi-step social engineering and our job is to stay ahead of that shift while keeping protection explainable and operable at enterprise scale.

We are a diverse group of product managers, software engineers and security researchers building for customers that include the largest organizations in the world. You will work in a supportive and inclusive environment, alongside some of the strongest people in the industry, with room to make a visible impact and grow your career.

Responsibilities

• Own a feature area within Defender for Office 365 end to end. Define the problem, shape the requirements, build the backlog, and partner with engineering and design to drive execution to a shipped, measured result.
• Contribute to the area's strategy and roadmap in partnership with the area lead, translating product direction into a concrete plan you can deliver.
• Work directly with customers and partners, listen, validate, and turn what you hear into product decisions and roadmap input.
• Define and track success criteria for your area. Be data-driven: instrument what you ship, analyze usage, and act on what the data tells you about adoption and quality.
• Partner with marketing, business planning, customer success and support to land releases well. Documentation, readiness, outbound messaging and post-launch feedback loops.
• Work across the Defender suite, collaborating with XDR, identity, endpoint and data teams.

Additional information

Analyze customer and market signals, telemetry and support data to identify unmet needs and opportunities in your area. Evaluate trade-offs and prioritize with your cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a product manager, including 2+ years in security products for Enterprise organization.
• Proven track record of shipping software products or services and owning them after launch.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; comfortable working from data.
• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
• Great listener with genuine customer empathy and the ability to identify real needs behind stated requests.
• Team player, confident, independent, curious and enthusiastic.
• Advantage: hands-on background in email security, threat detection, SOC workflows or XDR.
• Advantage: experienced in deep-tech security products for large enterprises.
• Advantage: BA/BSc in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Qualifications: Other Requirements –

• BA/BSc in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.