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Microsoft Corporation Senior Product Manager in Herzliya, Israel
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity within Microsoft to leverage your skills in driving innovation and supporting the adoption of our security portfolio? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where creativity and new ideas are celebrated?
If so, we want YOU to join our team!
Our Threat Protection strategy at Microsoft spans multiple products, providing state-of-the-art protection across Identity, Endpoints, Cloud apps, Email, SIEM, and Multi-cloud security. We combine advanced client technology built into the endpoint with robust cloud services to detect and thwart threats that bypass other defenses. We empower enterprises with actionable insights to detect and mitigate malicious activity, offering expert response recommendations.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a comprehensive cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that includes DevOps security, cloud security posture management (CSPM), and cloud workload protection (CWP) capabilities. It helps find weak spots across cloud configurations, strengthens the overall security posture of environments, and protects workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats. We are looking for someone with experience in this domain and/or a competitive product and can act as a deep subject matter expert to work alongside the field driving sales and adoption of the solution.
In this role, your contributions will be pivotal in helping customers realize the full potential of our cutting-edge security solutions. You'll secure pivotal deals, capture and act on customer feedback to refine our offerings and ensure an unparalleled customer and partner experience. Your ability to deliver exceptional customer engagements and foster a rapid, data-driven feedback loop will be critical to our success. Join us as we scale to new heights amidst incredible growth and make your mark in the world of cybersecurity.
What we are offering the ideal candidate:
The chance to work on a global dynamic team within Microsoft.
A fast-paced, exciting work environment where there is always a new challenge and opportunity.
Opportunities to directly impact customer and partner experience and improve the way product groups at Microsoft work with partners and customers.
Direct impact on product engineering decisions based upon partner/customer experience and data.
Responsibilities
You will be part of the Security Pre-Intent CxE team, focusing mainly on the Microsoft Defender for Cloud area while also gaining insight into various product workloads and teams to identify new opportunities for developing and driving at-scale workloads.
An important responsibility will be addressing the competitive landscape and the customer perception of Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You will share your expertise and provide guidance to the field, supporting opportunities and promoting sales and adoption of MDC.
Additionally, you will offer guidance through collateral, webinars, and other forums to educate the field on how to engage with and utilize these programs, as well as gather feedback to enhance and grow the offerings.
As a Security Pre-Intent CxE Team member, you will build relationships with engineering, uncover key insights, drive measurable product improvements in collaboration with Product Managers, Engineers, and Security Researchers, and create scalable and repeatable processes that enable value realization for Microsoft security solutions.
What we are offering the ideal candidate:
The chance to work on a global dynamic team.
A fast paced, exciting work environment where there is always a new challenge and opportunity.
Opportunities to directly impact customer and partner experience and improve the way product groups at Microsoft work with partners and customers.
Direct impact on product engineering decisions based upon partner/customer experience and data.
Qualifications
Technical Requirements
Must have:
- In-depth knowledge of our cloud security offering Microsoft Defender for Cloud or experience with leading CNAPP solution providers (PANT, Wiz, CS, etc.).
Nice to have:
- In-depth architect-level knowledge of Microsoft Threat Protection security offerings, expectation is level 300-400 on at least one of the workloads.
Role Requirements
The candidate must have a solid technical sales background or extensive experience in field/customer-facing roles.
Customer focused with experience working with Global 500 companies.
Demonstrated passion for and ability to drive improvements in end-to-end customer experiences
Ability to act as a liaison between customers and development teams to ensuresuccessful technical fulfillment of customer requirements
Forward thinking and strategic, yet pragmatic and operationally savvy, with a commitment to a job well done
Focus on diversity and inclusiveness to enable creative solutions to problems and to encourage all to feel included
Strong focus on learning and growth mindset
Communicator – strong negotiation, organizational, presentation and writing skills. Ability to engage with Microsoft senior stakeholders and provide feedback and best practices.
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 following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 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) .