Kirkland, Washington, United States
I’m Maithili Dandige, a 22-year mission-driven enterprise product and engineering executive at Microsoft, delivering business results through AI-native SaaS platforms, Data Security and Compliance, owning and building product vision, strategy, product development, and & building platform ecosystems at global scale. I’ve built and scaled multiple enterprise products from zero-to-industry-standard, turning vision into measurable outcomes, while leading teams from 12 to 80+ product leaders, 200+ engineers, and coordinating cross-functional orgs of 1,000+. I'm also a certified Life Coach; Founder & Author, WorkLifeUnstuck (worklifeunstuck.substack.com), mentoring senior women on the leadership track. I'm a prolific keynote speaker and product evangelist with extensive experience across 75+ events for Microsoft as part of Microsoft Security Senior Leadership Team. CONTACT ME: 📧 Email Me: [email protected] ☎ Call Me: (206) 972-2129
M365, Fabric, Copilot & Agent 365 |80+ PMs, cross-geo | Promoted to lead the entire Data Security product portfolio, a cornerstone of Microsoft’s $30B+ global enterprise security business. • Driving AI-first product strategy for Microsoft Purview across Securing Data, Secure AI, and Agentic SOC, directly enabling M365 Copilot and Agent 365 adoption at enterprise scale. • Leading 80+ Product Managers across multiple geographies in partnership with a 1,000+ person engineering organization. • Pioneering agentic security experiences: next-generation autonomous data protection for AI-era enterprises and competitive differentiation against AI-native players. • Trusted executive lead for sales and usage enablement across 20+ Fortune 500 and S2500 accounts on Copilot, portfolio strategy, and enterprise deployment.
Org: 200+ Product Managers, Engineers & Researchers, cross-geo End-to-end ownership including P&L and delivered revenue and usage growth from for SLT-level compensable field metric across data classification, automated labeling, DLP, and insider risk management FY24–FY26. • Incubated AI-native classification and autolabeling as a core product thesis; elevated to a Microsoft-level strategic bet accelerating Copilot and agent adoption across the enterprise. • Founded the ML Research team at IDC Hyderabad for LLM-based document classification, building AI-first capabilities for next-generation data security.
Org: 12 → 30 Product Managers Founded Microsoft’s Data Security PM team and established the product as category leader, adopted by 20,000 monthly active users enterprise organizations globally. • Grew revenue $200M to $1B+ with 33%+ YoY usage growth; established Data Security as a compensable revenue metric at Microsoft SLT level. • Built Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), now the industry-standard platform for classification, sensitivity labels, encryption, and rights management; SDK adopted by 200+ ISVs, partners, and competitors. • Built cloud-native DLP for Cloud, Endpoint, and Edge Browser, displacing legacy incumbents; established Microsoft as a Gartner and Forrester Magic Quadrant leader in Data Security. • Patent owner for Adaptive Protection, the industry-first Insider Risk + DLP integration, moving the category from rule based to risk-based protection.
Org: [8] → [20] Product Managers People and Groups Founding member for Microsoft Platform and experiences to establish collaboration platform and ecosystem for M365 on which Microsoft Teams was built. • Grew to 20M+ monthly active users within 12 months of launch by connecting scalable Identity, People, and Groups platform APIs and attaching them to scale Microsoft Teams. • Built cross-platform collaboration experiences (People Card, People Hub, Groups) across web, mobile, and desktop; key member of the product strategy that displaced Slack and Zoom and established Teams as category leader. • Deployed enterprise-grade Groups and Teams to large regulated-industry customers with built-in security and compliance.
Led product strategy and delivery for Office Trust Center, Protected View, File Block, and Document Inspector, reducing zero-day exposure and enabling secure document handling for enterprise customers; team recipient of the Trustworthy Computing Award. • Privacy owner and IAPP-certified leader for Office, embedding privacy-by-design and regulatory requirements across [50]+ features in the Office suite.