Senior Privacy Product Manager

The Microsoft 365 Privacy team (M365) is looking for a strong technical privacy manager with a customer-driven passion for privacy to work on Microsoft’s largest collaboration and productivity suites.

• Assess: Conduct technical deep-dive reviews of engineering design and architecture to evaluate and approve for privacy compliance for new releases.
• Guide: Partner with M365 engineering teams in all phases of development as a subject matter expert on privacy compliance and excellence contributing to overall feature design and user experience.
• Anticipate: Understand the competitive landscape and provide proactive privacy guidance to feature teams to build future-proof solutions.
• Innovate: Propose new features and functionality to our product teams related to end user privacy and data protection.
• Drive to resolution: Be able to identify and drive decisions by appropriately escalating privacy issues by partnering with our service leadership, Legal and privacy orgs around the company.
• Educate: Help build and support a network of privacy champions across our organization to expand the reach of the Privacy team in delivering assessment, training and documentation across the organization.
• Translate: Translate new privacy requirements (new policy, regulation, etc) into engineering specifications that are actionable by development teams. Conversely, translate complex privacy concepts or technical privacy implementations into language our customers and regulators can understand.
• Implement: Coordinate across diverse teams to drive implementation of new requirements into our products.

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in Privacy, engineering proficiency and organizational agility.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• 5+ years’ experience working with legal and regulatory affairs teams translating privacy requirements and regulation into actionable engineering specification that account for technical design and infrastructure considerations.
• 5+ years’ experience providing privacy expertise in an engineering setting.
• Experience developing and driving complex, cross-group projects.
• Proven track record delivering across organizational boundaries in a highly matrix model and sustaining strong partnerships within and outside the organization.
• Ability to drive decisions, bring clarity to ambiguity, influence leadership, and manage business outcomes with pace.
• Proficient communication skills that can tailor content and concepts based on audience (internal stakeholders and with external customers), leadership levels, and disciplines (Engineering, Finance, Business Development, Partners).
• Experience with cloud computing, online services, enterprise software development, engineering and/or operations at scale.

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave

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