New 
M365 Squad Leader
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 02, 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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.Microsoft Purview team is responsible for a broad suite of data governance, data security, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments. Role Summary Microsoft Purview empowers organizations to discover, govern, and protect data across their entire digital estate. Purview sits at the center of Microsoft's compliance and data trust strategy. As AI changes how data flows and is used, our customers need tools that are powerful, cohesive, intuitive, and trustworthy. We are reimagining how we build Purview-bringing together product, engineering, data, and compliance under empowered "builder pods." As a M365 Squad Leader, you will take end-to-end ownership of high-impact problem spaces that span privacy, risk, responsible AI, data governance, and user trust. We are looking to hire a M365 Squad Leader for the Purview team, You'll lead with insight, build with thoughtful execution and speed, and deliver secure, scalable solutions that help our customers manage their data responsibly in a complex, multi-cloud world. Who You Are You're a mission-driven builder-motivated by making complex tasks feel seamless and empowering. You thrive in ambiguity, think holistically, and act decisively. You're equally excited to dive into a UX flow, tune a policy engine, or unpack regulatory guidance and turn it into usable software. You enjoy collaborating with legal and engineering partners alike and care deeply about user trust, data ethics, and societal impact. The Team You'll be embedded in a multidisciplinary Purview Squad directly leading ~10 Engineers and ~1 Product Manager with strong support from leads in research, design, and AI. Our team values clarity, inclusion, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to advancing responsible data practices. You will help ensure the software, tools, and code meets the highest standards for scale and security. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility and of course security. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft's security policies and best practices.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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesLead adoption of the Squad operating model to enable agility, accountability, and measurable impact. Anticipate market trends, leverage customer insights, and define visionary paths that inspire squads toward ambitious goals.Own usage and customer delight, ensuring products deliver transformative value and foster loyalty.Act as a trusted advisor and executive champion, co-creating strategies that drive mutual growth.Align internal and external partners-engineering, CXE, UX, CELA, Trust teams-around shared success and act as escalation point when needed.Communicate a unified product vision that motivates and aligns squads toward extraordinary outcomes. Foster seamless partnerships across Group Squad Leaders, PMs, Engineering Architects, and domain experts to harmonize efforts.Allocate resources strategically to maximize squad impact and adapt to evolving priorities. Attract and develop top talent, foster inclusion, and leverage insights to elevate squad performance. Manage Rhythm of Business (RoB): Ensure squads complete 1CS reviews, GRC, weekly updates, roadmap reviews, security compliance, and cost management.Identify and own cross-functional problem areas in compliance, data classification, risk detection, privacy management, or regulatory workflows (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)Partner closely across engineering, legal, privacy, AI/ML, design, and customer-facing teams to develop solutions that meet technical, regulatory, and user needs.Leverage AI responsibly to accelerate innovation-e.g., applying semantic search, LLMs, or intelligent automation to governance challenges.Drive experimentation and telemetry-informed decisions to continuously optimize experiences for data stewards, compliance officers, and IT professionals.Contribute to shared patterns and playbooks for full-stack building across the Microsoft Security & Compliance organization.Embody our culture and values | |