Principal Product Manager- CISO

• *Overview**

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Azure Security’s Key Management team is looking for a Principal Product Manager to serve as the General Contractor (GC) for Microsoft’s Post-Quantum Cryptography transition — a company-wide, multi-year program spanning every product family and platform service. Microsoft is accelerating the adoption of quantum-safe cryptography across encryption in transit (TLS), PKI (code signing, secure boot, authentication certificates), and encryption at rest, aligned to the CNSA 2.0 timeline.

You will partner with the PQ Principal PM Architect and the Principal Group PM Manager to turn strategy into disciplined, milestone-driven execution.

You will own the PQ pillar as a program: setting ROBs, establishing KPIs and scorecards, defining work items, managing cross-divisional reporting, and ensuring accountability across engineering organizations adopting quantum-safe cryptography. You will leverage existing programs such as SFI and SDL, working closely with Azure Security Ops, to drive PQ prerequisites into teams’ roadmaps and ensure company-wide progress. Your job is to make this program land with clear milestones, regular SLT reviews, and every team knowing what they owe and when.

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.

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.

• *Responsibilities
• Serve as the General Contractor and PQ Pillar owner for Microsoft’s post-quantum cryptography transition, driving end-to-end program execution across all product families and divisions.
• Partner with the PQ Principal PM Architect and the Principal Group PM Manager to translate technical strategy into program roadmaps, work item definitions, dependency maps, and sequenced execution plans across three priority scenarios: encryption in transit (TLS), PKI (code signing, secure boot, authentication certificates), and encryption at rest.
• Establish and run the PQ rhythm of business (ROBs), including milestone tracking, executive status reporting, scorecards, and regular business reviews with SLT members, expanding the review cadence as additional scenarios come online.
• Define KPIs and accountability frameworks that make PQ adoption measurable across dozens of engineering teams, and hold divisions accountable to committed timelines.
• Work closely with Azure Security Ops to drive PQ prerequisite adoption through existing compliance and security programs, and coordinate with service teams to sequence deployments so dependencies are resolved before teams are asked to move.
• Represent the PQ program in business forums, leadership reviews, and cross-company governance meetings, serving as the single point of contact for program status and escalations.
• Communicate milestone wins to the field and to customers, supporting RFPs, governance requirements, and compliance readiness.
• *Qualifications
• *Required/minimum qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• *Other Requirements:

The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the followi