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Product Manager - Developer Architect
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Within the larger Security Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) organization, our team focuses on building strategic partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to address product gaps, enhance feature sets, and drive innovation across the Microsoft Security ecosystem. We are looking to hire a Product Manager - Developer Architect to join our team. We identify high-impact ISV collaborations, align product capabilities, co-launch new technologies, and develop strategies to drive adoption at scale. Our efforts are aimed at strengthening the market position of both Microsoft and our ISV partners, while also delivering value to customers, industry analysts, and the broader security community. We prioritize partnerships that inform our product roadmap based on real-world integration requirements, with a focus on APIs and extensibility to ensure every release is scalable and supportable. This approach minimizes custom integration and provides a sustainable path for growth for both Microsoft and our partners. If you are passionate about cybersecurity, possess deep technical expertise in connector and agent development, and have a background in Microsoft security product integration, we invite you to join the Microsoft Security CXE team. Together, we can shape the future of secure, intelligent cloud solutions for customers and partners worldwide. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesIdentity Architecture for ISVs: Work with 3rd party architects and developers to design their solution's authentication, authorization, and resource access to optimally work with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Graph APIs.Architecture design: Help our engineering teams design scalable extensibility frameworks by prioritizing modular APIs, standardized interfaces and reusable components over fragmented custom solutions, ensuring long-term adaptability and reduced maintenance overhead. This approach minimizes technical debt from one-off integrations.Strategic Investment: Serve as an architecture point of contact into the Microsoft Security engineering teams for select ISVs and be responsible for delivering architecture workshops and design sessions. Collaborate with cross-organization partners to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize investments in alignment with company objectives. Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria and KPIs.Customer-Centric Insights: Proactively anticipate customer needs and market opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Identify patterns across a portfolio of feature areas and define the impact and prioritization of challenges. Leverage data-driven insights to guide decision-making. Thought Leadership: Provide thought leadership within the team, addressing challenges and fostering a shared vision. Collaborate effectively to gain alignment and buy-in from group managers and other leaders..End-to-End Vision: Collaborate closely with the Feature Product Managers, Business Development, and other customer focused architects to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure successful execution.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and early adopting ISVs and Customers, to gather input and garner support for product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Work with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to define product integration release criteria, customer acquisition strategies, and content creation. Strategize and lead the transition of ISV feature integrations from private preview to public preview and then to general availability. Embody our culture and values | |