Principal Applied Threat Intelligence Manager

** Overview*
* 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.

Microsoft Security Research is at the front line of defending Microsoft customers and the broader ecosystem against the world's most sophisticated threat actors. Our Applied Threat Intelligence team tracks the threat landscape and the threat actors that target our customers; where they have been, where they are today, and predict where they will be tomorrow. We partner deeply across Microsoft Threat Intelligence, product engineering, and research to ensure our customers stay ahead of threats.

** Responsibilities*
* + Manage a team of Applied Threat Intelligence analysts to lead with AI to understand the threat landscape and the latest attacker tradecraft.

+ Track threat actors, including financially motivated threat actors; their infrastructure, their targets, and their shifting techniques, tactics, and procedures.

+ Translate complex technical findings into clear, prescriptive guidance for security operations teams, executives, and the broader defender community.

+ Partner with product, research, marketing, and communications teams to ensure high-quality intelligence experiences through Microsoft's customer-facing surfaces and managed services (Agentic Security, Defender XDR, Defender Experts, Sentinel, blogs, briefings).

+ Build and refine the pipelines, tooling, and workflows that allow Microsoft to stream insightful cyber threat intelligence to customers machine speed.

+ Represent Microsoft Threat Intelligence in customer briefings, industry conferences, and cross-industry working groups.

+ Mentor analysts and contribute to tradecraft, analytic standards, and team-wide knowledge sharing.

** Qualifications*
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* Minimum Qualifications:

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* - Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.

○ OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.

○ OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.

○ OR equivalent experience.

- 1+ year(s) people management 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

- This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship‑based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship‑based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* - Doctorate in…