Principal Squad Leader na Microsoft Corporation

Overview

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 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.

The Purview team embraces the advancements in artificial intelligence, with groundbreaking research across deep learning, NLP, LLMs, RL, and graph-based approaches. Our mission is to stay ahead of emerging technological trends and seamlessly embed transformative AI capabilities into our product ecosystem. We aim to deliver solutions that not only address current challenges but also pave the way for the future of Purview. We are looking for a Principal Manager to lead the Product and Engineering charter for Purview Communication Compliance. In this role, you will define the vision and roadmap for AIdriven compliance capabilities, ensuring strong alignment between customer needs, regulatory requirements, and engineering execution. You will lead crossdisciplinary teams to architect, build, and operate scalable cloud services that deliver trustworthy and impactful compliance outcomes.

If you aspire to wear a General Manager hat—owning strategy, product direction, engineering execution, and outcomes—this role gives you the opportunity to run a full multi-disciplinary squad within the larger Microsoft and see your decisions translate directly into customer and market impact.

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.

Responsibilities

Role Overview

• This is a senior leadership role with accountability for business, customer, and engineering outcomes across a portfolio of initiatives.

• You will operate as a strategy to execution leader, driving direction, technical decisions, and operating models that scale.

• The role requires a General Manager mindset, owning outcomes beyond a single product or team.

Key Responsibilities

• Set portfolio level strategy and technical direction, aligning product vision, system architecture, and execution across multiple squads.

• Own end to end outcomes, including customer adoption, reliability, cost efficiency, and trust, balancing short term delivery with long term platform investments.

• Lead technical architecture and design decisions, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with regulatory and trust requirements.

• Translate executive strategy into clear priorities, metrics, and operating mechanisms that teams can execute repeatedly at speed.

• Build and scale high performing squads, hiring, coaching, and developing leaders while maintaining high talent density and strong ownership.

• Run high velocity squad operations, removing friction, resolving cross team dependencies, and accelerating delivery without compromising quality.

• Influence across senior leaders and functions, aligning stakeholders, unblocking decisions, and managing risk and trade offs.

• Act as a force multiplier, improving how teams operate, make decisions, and deliver impact at scale.

• Represent the product to senior Microsoft leadership, clearly communicating strategy, progress, risks, and impact through executive level updates and presentations.

Success in this role would mean customers see increased tangible value, business outcomes consistently improve at scale with an energized team—operating with clarity, ownership, and sustained execution strength.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience leading largescale, cloud based product and engineering systems in global, enterprise environments.

• Proven experience leading multiple teams or portfolios in highly matrixed organizations, including ownership of complex technical and organizational dependencies.

• Strong ability to operate across strategy, architecture, and execution, with a deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs.

• Demonstrated strength in data and metrics driven leadership, with comfort owning and using metrics related to usage, reliability, performance, cost, and quality to drive decisions.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate technical and business tradeoffs to executive audiences.

• Deep understanding of product and engineering lifecycles, enterprise customer engagement, and operating cloud services at scale.

• A track record of driving transformational change, not just incremental optimization.

Preferred / Differentiators

• Experience designing or scaling platform architectures or operating models across multiple teams or organizations.

• Evidence of sustained, company level or multiorganization impact, particularly in complex, regulated, or high trust domains.

• Comfort making high risk, high leverage technical and business decisions with incomplete or evolving data.

• Ability to simplify complex technical strategy, align large groups around clear outcomes, and drive execution through ambiguity.

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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)