Job Description

Team Description: - Microsoft Defender Experts


Security 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 are 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.


Are you passionate about protecting customers and helping them keep their enterprises secure against evolving cyber threats? Do you excel in operational excellence, delivering high-quality and effective security solutions? Would you like to be part of a global team of talented security researchers, data scientists, and threat analysts? Do you feel energized by approaching problems from multiple angles -- wallowing in deep technical problems, empathizing with user needs and concerns, developing and delivering major business and strategic initiatives? If you would like to tackle these challenges and be part of a winning team, we have an opportunity for you! Trillions of security signals are generated by customers looking to secure their environments from an ever-changing, dynamic threat environment. The Microsoft Defender Experts team dives deep into that data to identify threats that customers have not seen yet. Our job is to keep attackers on the defensive and help them be seen when they attack

Responsibilities
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Team Responsibilities include:

• Protection Outcomes: Quality and Efficacy. Provide program management and rhythm of business review for assessment of quality and efficacy of service protection outcomes.
• Continuous Operational Excellence. With a focus on core execution and fundamentals, drive efficient and effective service delivery (as measured by OKRs and operational metrics), operational live site resolution, conduct operational health reviews, and manage ongoing operations lifecycle programs.
• Opportunity Analysis & Solutions Identification. Identify improvements, opportunities, and gaps in operational processes and programs, leveraging deep data exploration and operational metrics to drive prioritization and resolution.
• Research Advancement. Drive •innovation & insights• in Security Research projects and team initiatives designed to advance research knowledge and operational capability to solve domain-specific problems. Plan and manage each phase of the program framework and ensure research projects are conducted in a timely and efficient manner.
• Scaled Interface. Be a leading and shared voice of the team driving efficient coordination between partners and the research and operations teams. Build and develop deeply collaborative relationships across broader Microsoft Security Research partners, Customer Experience and Service Delivery Management, Product Management (PdM), Engineering, and other cross-functional teams.

People Management Responsibilities include:

• Model. Live our culture by embodying our values and practicing our leadership principles.
• Coach. Define team objectives and outcomes, enable success across boundaries, and help the team adapt and learn.
• Care. Attract and retain great people, know each individual's capabilities and aspirations, and invest in the growth of others.

Qualifications
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• Bachelor's Degree and total of 12 yrs of exp with 6+ years of experience in product or technical program management, data analysis, process management, process execution, process optimization, or related experience; OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.




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