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 Customer Security Management Office, which is part of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer and within the broader Microsoft Security Organization, is seeking a skilled and experienced Principal Cyber Incident Response Comms PM to join our team. This role is pivotal in managing and optimizing programs and tooling to support our customers, security leaders and executives, and our account teams in security incidents and eventscrises. During a security incident, customers need prompt, actionable, and accurate information to understand and assess the potential impact and risk to their organization, data, and business processes. During a security incident, this role will help orchestrates security incident communications ensure that Microsoft can offer our customers and partners that provide critical details about what happened; which products or services are affected, if any; and any steps being taken to mitigate and remediate the issue; and recommended actions our customers should take. How we communicate this guidance enables our customers and partners to make informed risk decisions and take necessary actions to protect their own IT environments and data. This Principal Cyber Incident Comms PM will identify and leverage opportunities to improve the processes by which we facilitate security incident communications collateral, as well as how Microsoft communicates with and resolves customers’ inquiries and escalations pertaining to security incidents, security vulnerabilities, and other security-related events. If selected for this role, you will partner with other security teams across the security business, incident response, research, marketing, PR, customer support, and product engineering organizations to drive process alignment and optimization. You will also and develop programmaticprocess documentation to ensure consistent, repeatable processes, and shared understanding among a diverse set of stakeholders with competing priorities. Organizational skills, project management, stakeholder management, and critical thinking skills, as well as an appreciation for the unique challenges of security incidents and crisis management are keys to success in this role. If you enjoy a dynamic work environment, where you will support a global team and are focused on continuously improving the customer journey as relates to security incidents, we’d like to learn more about you! This role requires you to be available/online outside of typical business hours/weekdays/some holidays, given the global crisis management aspect of our team's support for cybersecurity incidents. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
