Hiring: Director, Privacy & Business Resilience Company: Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:42:05 Target Skills & Keywords : Risk Management About the job Experience: •5+ years people management experience. Required Skills: •Build a high-impact team •Build and lead a high-performing team known for sound judgment, customer empathy, risk discipline, and measurable impact. •Set clear priorities and accountability, develop exceptional talent, and empower the team to make smart tradeoffs and execute with speed. •Enable the business while reducing risk •Lead an integrated, risk-based privacy, data protection, and resilience program that protects data, earns trust, and enables the business to operate at global commercial scale. •Turn risk signals into clear priorities, pragmatic mitigation, and timely leadership decisions—strengthening accountability while reducing friction for sales, consulting, and support. •Modernize and scale the program •Set and deliver an AI-enabled transformation roadmap that simplifies work, improves evidence and risk visibility, and accelerates mitigation. Qualifications: •Proven ability to lead privacy, data protection, business resilience, or risk programs in a large, matrixed, global technology or services business. •Track record modernizing risk or compliance programs through AI, automation, telemetry, simplification, and scalable controls. •Deep knowledge of global privacy and data protection obligations, accountability frameworks, privacy by design, data governance, and evidence expectations. •Demonstrated capacity to align distributed teams in a federated model and drive consistent outcomes without relying on direct authority. •Risk Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $303,600 per year. •This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Compensation: •$130,900 - $277,200 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!