Senior Program Manager, Content Provenance Standards

** Overview*
* Microsoft's Corporate Standards Group (CSG) advances standards that support innovation, interoperability, trust, and responsible technology adoption. CSG works across Microsoft and with standards organizations, industry consortia, governments, academia, and civil society to help shape technical and governance frameworks that enable Microsoft's product, policy, and business priorities.

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** Senior Program Manager, Content Provenance Standards
** will lead Microsoft's engagement in external standards and industry initiatives focused on content provenance, content authenticity, and AI transparency. This role will translate developments across standards, technology, policy, and regulation into actionable strategies for Microsoft and help advance secure, interoperable, and implementable approaches to trustworthy digital content.

The successful candidate will operate with substantial autonomy in a complex and rapidly evolving domain. They will work across engineering, research, responsible AI, security, legal, public policy, and product organizations and build trusted relationships with external stakeholders. The role is based in Redmond, reports day to day to the Corporate Standards Group, and works through a formal partnership with the Responsible AI Product Organization to support shared strategy integration, stakeholder alignment, and executive sponsorship.

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.

** Responsibilities*
* + Lead and coordinate

Microsoft's engagement in the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) and related standards organizations, industry consortia, and ecosystem initiatives.

+ Develop and advance Microsoft positions on content provenance for synthetic and authentic content, Content Credentials, content authenticity, digital identity, trust models, and related interoperability frameworks.

+ Influence technical specifications, governance frameworks, conformance programs, implementation guidance, and ecosystem adoption in alignment with Microsoft's product, policy, security, and trust objectives.

+ Establish and drive a clear strategy, roadmap, priorities, and measurable outcomes for Microsoft's content provenance standards portfolio.

+ Translate external technical, regulatory, and market developments into actionable recommendations for engineering, product, responsible AI, security, legal, policy, and research stakeholders.

+ Drive alignment across organizational boundaries, manage dependencies, surface decisions and risks, remove blockers, and maintain momentum on complex initiatives.

+ Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams evaluating or implementing provenance, authenticity, transparency, and trust technologies.

+ Assess technical, security, governance, legal, and operational implications of specifications and conformance requirements, including scalability and interoperability considerations.

+ Serve as the bridge between Microsoft's provenance strategy, product objectives, regulatory obligations, and the evolution of the C2PA specifications, ensuring external standards align with Microsoft's implementation, compliance, security, and trust requirements.

+ Work with policy and regulatory affairs teams to monitor global policy and regulatory developments affecting AI-generated or AI-modified content, machine-readable and perceptible disclosures, and content authenticity.

+ Prepare executive…