Microsoft Looking For Risk Manager – Data Protection at United States Full Time

If you love to partner with colleagues around the world ensuring the security and privacy of data and information, making our employees and customers have a better experience, we have a career opportunity for you!

About MCAPS & TrIP:
The MCAPS (Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions) organization unifies the commercial go to market organization to accelerate our progress, stay true to the Microsoft mission, and empower our customers, partners, people, and Microsoft’s growth.

Within MCAPS, TrIP (Trust Integrity & Protection) defines processes for customers’ data protection including privacy, security, governance, risk, and compliance solutions, and provides guidance and oversight across the MCAPS division.

Risk Manager- Data Protection

As the Risk Manager- Data Protection, you will proactively drive risk management and compliance objectives as a key partner and trusted advisor to MCAPS planning teams, ensuring future state processes and programs have privacy and security included by design. Key to this role will be building effective working relationships across the business, proactively driving the adoption of key policies and standards relevant to the business. Also, important will be close coordination with regional TrIP DP and Privacy Managers to see that relevant regional business and regulatory requirements are evaluated as key inputs into future strategies and program enhancements.

We expect you to be a data protection, compliance, or privacy professional with a passion for excellence, strong collaboration, and driving efficient outcomes. You should be very comfortable working across teams to lead and build consensus, resolve conflicts, and create positive long-term working relationships. You should also be able to work in a global environment, in a rapidly changing space, and be able to represent the team to customers, partners, and internal or external leadership.

Our team values strong cross-team communication and collaboration, and proactive sharing of learnings and best practices to help make our whole team stronger. At the same time, to be successful in this role you need to be a self-motivated driver who can succeed with limited direction.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
Own data protection & resiliency compliance end-to-end for assigned teams within MCAPS by:

Delivering Strategic Frameworks

Delivering a roadmap by aligning data protection services with business goals, strategies, and priorities

Delivering requirements for business solutions and remove organizational blockers

Embedding Business Accountability

Forging strong partnerships with your specific planning and process teams, to proactively review business strategies and complete risk-based data protection reviews at the optimal time in the change cycle

Increasing awareness of data protection obligations within the Organization

Sharing data protection best practices

Providing Assurance

Delivering data protection insights tailored to the business

Partnering to drive risk mitigation and improvements through various data protection reviews

Delivering a Compelling Trust Story

Removing sales blockers

Qualifications

Minimum:
At least 7 years’ experience in privacy, security, or compliance disciplines, with an understanding of enterprise compliance governance and oversight processes (information security standards, laws and regulations, privacy and security, risk management, control protocols, methodologies, and practices) to operationalize these controls with business leaders

Data Governance, Privacy, or Information Security certifications such as CIPP, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAPP, or CFE, etc.

Familiarity with control frameworks and regulatory/compliance requirements, such as ISO27001, HIPAA, FISMA/FedRamp, EU Data Protection Directive, etc.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor communications based on audience

Strong project management abilities, driving projects and deliverables, and measuring results

Qualifications:
Preferred:
Commercial and/or Public Sector or Government industry experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $113900 and $171500.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.