Microsoft
Director, Privacy & Business Resilience
$131K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 6+ years with a master’s degree or 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 12+ years with a master’s degree or 15+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience; 5+ years people management.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Government Intelligence, Security, or Information Technology; or bachelor’s degree in those fields or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads Microsoft’s global commercial privacy, data protection, and business resilience program, modernizing it with AI-enabled controls and providing executives with a coordinated view of risk.
What you'll do
- Build and lead a high-performing team, setting priorities and developing talent.
- Direct an integrated, risk-based privacy, data protection, and resilience program that reduces risk while enabling commercial operations.
- Modernize the program with AI, automation, telemetry, scalable controls, and enterprise risk reporting.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in a listed field and 6+ years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree in a listed or related field and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with AI, AI-based analytical tools, AI governance, and AI governance frameworks.
- Experience leading privacy, data protection, business resilience, or risk programs in a large, matrixed, global technology or services business.
- Deep knowledge of global privacy and data protection obligations, accountability frameworks, privacy by design, data governance, and evidence expectations.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a listed or related field and 12+ years of relevant risk-management experience, or bachelor’s degree in a listed or related field and 15+ years of relevant risk-management experience, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of people management experience; membership in a relevant risk-domain association is also listed.
Pay
USD $130,900 - $277,200 per year (base pay); USD $165,600 - $303,600 per year (base pay)
Tools
Microsoft technologies
AI focus
Set and deliver an AI-enabled transformation roadmap; use AI and AI-based analytical tools to scale program work, improve evidence and risk visibility, accelerate mitigation, and support AI governance.
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