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.

We seek a Senior Research Program Manager to join our research team focusing on our Messaging protections and driving technical solution/resolutions.

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Security is a top priority for Microsoft because it is a top concern for our customers. Microsoft’s Security and Compliance team has invested deeply to build 1st party security capabilities across Microsoft 365. The fight against cybercrime requires defenders to be adaptive and responsive to the rapidly evolving threat landscape. To protect our customers from an adaptive adversary and help them manage complexity in the cyber operation, we in turn need to innovate. AI stands at the core of this innovation. It allows us to scale security domain expertise, utilize the rich signals available at Microsoft, and make timely decisions to protect Microsoft and its customers from cyberattacks.

We are seeking applicants from diverse backgrounds that are fueled by the challenges presented cyberattacks and have a passion for research. You would be part of a world-class research lab with globally recognized scientists, researchers and threat intel professionals. We pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, ML, security, privacy, threat intel, and compliance.  We power protection in products like Office 365, Outlook, Microsoft Threat Protection, Mobile Threat Detection, Edge, and more. In this role, you would be responsible for working with threat intel analysts, data scientists, security researchers, applied researchers, engineers, and internal & external partners to protect our customers from email borne threats/campaigns, phishing and social engineering threats so they can communicate & browse with confidence and trust. This role has a unique opportunity to bring innovation in the threat intel security space that impacts not only millions of customers, but the threat landscape at large.

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.