Senior Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence - Code and Application Security

Grow competitive advantage by turning evidence from the market into product and go-to-market decisions. In Microsoft’s Security Compete team, you will shape field-ready materials and deal support for modern AppSec, AI code security, and code-to-cloud. This onsite role in Redmond, WA brings together customer insights, win/loss analysis, and technical depth to help Microsoft compete with clarity and precision.

Responsibilities

• Monitor how platform and specialist competitors evolve across code security, reachability and exploitability, and code-to-cloud risk, and translate those changes into implications for Microsoft.
• Convert competitive intelligence into clear recommendations on where to invest, which product gaps to close, and how to differentiate in the market.
• Develop point of view using customer evaluations, win/loss analysis, field feedback, and inputs from market and analysts.
• Create vendor analyses, technical briefs, and battlecards that sellers use during AppSec and code-to-cloud evaluations.
• Support priority deals where competitive insight can affect outcomes, using AI to keep pace with market movement while maintaining accuracy.

Requirements

• Education and experience: Master’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business OR Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.
• Technical depth in code and application security, including secure development, static and dynamic analysis, vulnerability triage and prioritization, threat modeling, and developer remediation workflows.
• Experience with CNAPP or exposure management, especially where AppSec findings connect to runtime reachability, exploitability, and attack paths is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and security, including AI coding assistants, AI code review, autofix, AI-assisted application security, and MCP or agent tooling.
• Experience with modern delivery pipelines and software supply chain security, including CI/CD, SBOM, provenance, signing, and related ecosystem security practices.
• Strong competitive intelligence, analytical writing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to combine AI-assisted synthesis, public evidence, customer-facing materials, and technical analysis to evaluate vendor claims.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional experience: Master’s Degree AND 6+ years experience in business OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.
• Public work such as research, CVEs, conference talks, open-source contributions, or technical writing is a plus.
• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CSSLP, or cloud security certifications are a plus.

Technologies

• AI coding assistants, AI code review, autofix, AI-assisted application security, MCP, agent tooling
• CI/CD, SBOM, provenance, signing

Compensation

Senior Product Marketing Manager (Product Marketing IC4) base pay range across the U.S.: USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year.

Different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area: USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.