Principal Security Research Manager

What you'll do

• Manage a team of intelligence analysts.
• Translate strategic security priorities into specific intelligence requirements for security specialists and threat hunters.
• Oversee threat intelligence production workflows and establish new standards and processes.
• Write, review, and edit finished intelligence products to provide customers with actionable threat information.
• Deliver new threat intelligence value to enable early protection for customers.
• Build and strengthen partnerships with key organizations that benefit Microsoft and its customers.
• Secure buy-in for ideas from internal engineering groups to improve product and service offerings.

What we're looking for

• Must have a Doctorate with 3+ years, Master's with 4+ years, or Bachelor's with 6+ years of relevant experience in computer science or security.
• Must have equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements.
• Must have 1+ year(s) of people management experience.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or have valid permanent residency/protected status for export control and government customer requirements.
• Must be able to pass a Microsoft background check and a Microsoft Cloud background check every two years.
• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection (preferred).
• 3+ years people management experience (preferred).
• 4+ years experience in the security domain, including understanding attacker techniques and tracking threat actors (preferred).