Principal Product Management
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Job Summary
The Windows Enterprise and Security (ENS) team is building a new product and engineering presence in Microsofts India Development Center (IDC) to deliver the foundational Windows capabilities that enterprises depend on every day.
TPM(Trusted Platform Module) is how millions of Windows users securely store biometric data (like fingerprints or facial recognition) and PINs providing a secure and convenient way to sign into Windows without having to use a password. TPM technology helps organizations establish a tamper resistant hardware root of trust thats at the hear of computing confidential data as well as establishing consistent security access and control.
As the Principal Product Manager for TPM/Attestation you will drive product strategy and execution for the Windows TPM stack in partnership with internal and external partners such as hardware OEM vendors Microsoft cloud services like Intune Azure Attestation and Azure Entra. You will engage directly with enterprise IT admins and IT leadership and translate customer needs into roadmap and feature decisions spanning the Windows client services and cloud control plane.
This is an individual-contributor role based in Bangalore alongside the broader ENS IDC team.
Microsofts 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive the product roadmap and execution for the Windows TPM platform and Azure attestation stack including the enrollment credential storage firmware upgrades TPM deployment scenarios as Pluton as well as discrete chips.
- Driving relationships alignment and delivery across internal partners as well as external Hardware/OEM partners.
- Partner with Software Engineering across client service and cloud control plane teams to design and ship end-to-end enterprise scenarios (onboarding to policy to compliance to remediation).
- Engage directly with enterprise IT admins IT leadership and field teams; communicate the Windows manageability value proposition (security compliance cost reduction modern management) and run customer feedback loops into product requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement of platform fundamentals -- security performance automation quality and validation -- including investments that improve Intune service scalability.
- Define success criteria ship plans and data-informed metrics (policy success rates deployment friction usage) for cross-functional projects and ensure alignment across organizations.
- Partner with support field and engineering teams on customer issues and feedback and represent Windows manageability in cross-team and partner forums.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree AND 8 years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree AND 10 years experience in engineering product/technical program management data analysis or product development.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience defining and shipping enterprise software manageability device management or platform capabilities.
- 6 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Hands-on experience with Windows TPM Attestation MDM Group Policy provisioning update/compliance flows Autopilot or Intune (or an equivalent MDM platform).
- Experience driving enterprise customer feedback loops into product requirements and translating customer pain points into shipped product changes.
- 5 year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g. sample documentation product demos).
Deep Technical Foundation
- Solid grounding in Windows OS architecture security model.
- Expertise or exposure to hardware/firmware trust stack:
- TPM secure boot attestation measured boot.
- Device identity key protection root of trust.
- Ability to reason across HW FW OS boundaries.
Ecosystem & Partner Engagement
- Experience working with OEMs ODMs silicon vendors.
- Comfortable driving alignment with:
- Platform architects firmware teams silicon partners.
- Cross-company technical stakeholders.
- Ability to influence ecosystem roadmap and standards direction.
Product Leadership & Ownership
- Acts as clear product owner for Trusted Platform/TPM space.
- Defines vision roadmap and tradeoffs across security cost perf compatibility.
- Represents product in exec-level and cross-org forums (EnS IDC WSSI etc.).
People Leadership
- Demonstrated experience:
- Hiring and scaling PM teams.
- Mentoring and leveling PMs.
- Driving execution culture and accountability.
- Ability to be the voice of product for IDC within EnS.
Execution at Scale
- Drives multi-team multi-year platform investments.
- Balances:
- Security guarantees vs ecosystem constraints.
- Innovation vs backward compatibility.
- Solid at navigating ambiguity cross-org dependencies.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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