Lead Privacy Program Manager

** Overview*
* Do you want to shape how privacy and data protection work across one of the world's largest commercial businesses?

The Trust and Integrity Protection (TrIP) organization enables Microsoft's commercial business to grow with trust by translating privacy and data protection requirements into clear decisions, durable controls, and measurable outcomes. We are seeking a senior individual contributor to serve as the Privacy Program Owner and architect for the business spanning global sales, consulting, and technical support.

You will set the strategy and target state for the privacy and data protection program, assess whether it is operating effectively, and lead the management of systemic and emerging risk. This is a lead individual-contributor role-not a people-manager position-with broad influence across business, legal, engineering, compliance, and privacy teams.

This opportunity is ideal for a privacy leader who combines deep subject-matter expertise, strong business judgment, and an architect's mindset. You will create clarity in ambiguity, modernize how the program operates, and help the business move faster while protecting data and earning trust.

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*
* + Set the program strategy and architecture. Define the vision, priorities, operating model, and multiyear roadmap for privacy and data protection across sales, consulting, and technical support.

+ Own program effectiveness. Establish governance, controls, accountability, metrics, and assurance mechanisms that demonstrate compliance with the Microsoft Privacy Standard and applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and industry requirements.

+ Lead privacy risk management. Identify, aggregate, assess, and prioritize systemic, emerging, and business-specific privacy risks; recommend pragmatic treatments; and drive mitigation through accountable business and technical owners.

+ Translate obligations into scalable solutions. Convert complex privacy requirements into actionable business guidance, technical patterns, control designs, and privacy-by-design practices that teams can implement consistently.

+ Modernize and simplify the program. Use AI, automation, telemetry, and Microsoft technologies to reduce manual effort, strengthen evidence, accelerate risk reduction, and improve the stakeholder experience.

+ Orchestrate a federated privacy model. Align distributed privacy, legal, engineering, risk, compliance, and business teams around common standards, priorities, and outcomes without relying on direct authority.

+ Advise senior leaders. Provide clear, decision-ready insights on risk posture, control effectiveness, regulatory change, investment priorities, and opportunities to enable responsible business growth.

+ Represent the program with credibility. Serve as a trusted privacy authority with customers, auditors, regulators, legal partners, and Microsoft leaders when addressing complex data protection matters.

** Qualifications*
* Required Qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Government Intelligence, Security, or Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years experience in risk management, privacy, security, compliance, government intelligence, operations, auditing, and/or finance OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master's Degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Government Intelligence,…