Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Threat Response

Overview

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.

As a member of the Microsoft Threat Protection Security Research team, you’ll join a diverse global community of engineers, program managers, data scientists, security researchers, and threat hunters who apply deep knowledge of attacker tactics and cutting-edge technology to protect customers. We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Threat Response team. The Threat Response team leads Microsoft Security’s response to high-severity security incidents, coordinating research, engineering, threat intelligence, and communications teams to get validated, actionable protection guidance to customers quickly. In this role, you will act as a Crisis Manager for complex incidents, own improvements across several incident response processes and tools, and help bring AI and automation into how we respond. This is a role for an experienced program manager who can work independently, influence across teams, and help grow the people around them.

Responsibilities

Incident leadership: Act as Crisis Manager for complex, high-severity security incidents with limited oversight.

Coordinate response teams, make timely priority calls, and drive fast delivery of validated, actionable protection guidance to customers.

Take part in an on-call rotation, including occasional after-hours and weekend coverage.

Program definition and metrics: Identify complex gaps and opportunities across multiple incident response processes and tools, using incident data, response trends, and post-incident findings to spot patterns and build improvement plans.

Define program goals, priorities, success criteria, and performance metrics, such as time to declare, time to customer guidance, and SLA adherence.

Cross-team orchestration: Build relationships across security research, engineering, threat intelligence, and communications teams to drive coordinated action during and after incidents.

Influence peers and partner teams with data and clear reasoning, and give leadership concise updates on incident status, impact, and next steps.

Project management and execution: Track, coordinate, and communicate end-to-end schedules across multiple workstreams. Establish and monitor processes, hold stakeholders accountable, manage dependencies, identify risks and escalate appropriately, and make course corrections when work drifts from goals.

Contribute to pilot and rollout plans aligned with team OKRs and KPIs. Engineering partnership and AI/automation: Partner with engineering on incident response tooling and roadmap priorities.

Build your own AI skills to streamline response work and scale what works across the team, with human-in-the-loop validation. Governance and continuous improvement: Manage the quality standards, validation gates, and publication guardrails that keep customer-facing guidance accurate, safe, and compliant.

Lead post-incident reviews, validate that improvements meet agreed targets, and drive changes to closure across teams.

Documentation, advisory, and mentorship: Drive the supportability experience by owning incident response runbooks, playbooks, and documentation.

Act as a technical advisor to partner teams, and mentor newer Crisis Managers and program managers to raise the team’s overall capability.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

2+ years of experience in incident response, crisis management, or security operations. Experience leading or coordinating response to high-severity security or service incidents.

Hands-on experience building AI skills, agents, or automations to streamline operational workflows, such as triage, summarization, or drafting, and scaling them for use across a team.

Experience building and running post-incident review programs that drive measurable improvement.

Experience creating customer-facing security guidance, such as advisories, detection or hunting guidance, or mitigations. Experience with threat intelligence, threat hunting, or security research workflows.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.