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

Microsoft’s Security Compete team is hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager focused on competitive intelligence for modern AppSec, AI code security, and code-to-cloud. The role translates competitive evidence into product and go-to-market direction, and equips the field with materials that support evaluations and deal execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor how platform and specialist competitors evolve across code security, reachability and exploitability, and code-to-cloud risk, and define implications for Microsoft’s position.
• Convert competitive insight into actionable recommendations on where to invest, which product gaps to address, and how to differentiate in the market.
• Build perspective using customer evaluations, win/loss analysis, field feedback, and market and analyst input.
• Create vendor analyses, technical briefs, and battlecards that sales teams use for AppSec and code-to-cloud assessments.
• Support priority deals by applying competitive insight to influence outcomes, using AI-assisted synthesis to maintain pace while staying accountable for 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.
• CNAPP or exposure management experience, particularly where AppSec findings connect to runtime reachability, exploitability, and attack paths, is a plus.
• AI-assisted development and security familiarity, 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 platforms, SBOM, provenance, signing, package ecosystem security, or related practices.
• Competitive intelligence and communication skills, including analytical writing and storytelling, with the ability to combine AI-assisted synthesis, public evidence, customer-facing materials, and technical analysis to evaluate vendor claims.

Technologies

• AI coding assistants
• AI code review
• Autofix
• AI-assisted application security
• MCP
• Agent tooling
• CI/CD
• SBOM
• Provenance
• Signing

Preferred Qualifications

• Education and additional experience: Master’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business; or Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field 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.

Compensation and Location

• Location: Redmond, WA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 106,400 - 222,600 per year
• Product Marketing IC4 base pay range (across the U.S.): USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year
• Additional location-specific range: USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area