Pushkar Saraf

Director PM @ Microsoft AI | Building guardrails for Agentic AI.

Greater Seattle Area

About

Product and engineering leader with 15+ years building products from ideation to global launch. Currently leading PM functions for Copilot Security - shipping AI risk, safety, and consent features for agentic AI. Products built from 0-1, 4 M&As and Teams scaled from zero to 200+ and managed a matrix of 80 people

Experience

  • Microsoft AI (Redmond, WA)
    • Director of Security PM - Microsoft AI
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Lead XPIA strategy, Consents, and secure AI agents for OneCopilot

    • Director of Security - Microsoft AI
      Feb 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Lead security initiatives across Bing, Copilot, Ads, and MSN, ensuring robust protection for billions of users and global business operations. My role emphasizes secure-by-design frameworks for infrastructure and Agentic RAG AI programs, while facilitating shift-left initiatives to enhance engineering culture and streamline product delivery.

  • HBR Advisory Council Member at Harvard Business Review
    May 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    As an HBR's Advisory Council member, I help improve the content and chart HBR’s future direction.

  • Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
    Jan 2023 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Previous: Led Access Management (Identity, Lockbox), Tenant Security for M365, threat actor evictions across Microsoft.

  • Principal Architect & Manager at Zscaler
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Built a Multi-Cloud security product "Zscaler Cloud Posture" to serve thousands of customers which solves IAC, CSPM, CWPP,CIEM, CNAPP scenarios About Zscaler Cloud Posture : https://www.zscaler.com/resources/zscaler-for-workloads Functions that I led: Engineering Management Big Data Engineering, Architecture, Patents, Product Innovations, Competitive Analysis, Essentially: Had multiple hats for building this product from day 0 to GTM. Press Release: https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-launches-posture-control-solution-remediate-hidden-security-risks-across-cloud-native

  • Architect at BrainScale Inc
    Nov 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs

    - Designed and built greenfield projects in IoT/AI and ML on Cloud - Designed and Built knowledge mining and content discovery enterprise platforms. - Led cloud adoption strategies for clients, from assessments to cloud cost optimization engagements - Analyzed clients' current application portfolio and provided a strategic cloud adoption roadmap - Provided thought leadership and knowledge management, drove Azure learning, customer education, and added features to existing products and accelerators - Enabled MultiCloud adoption and transformed Monolith solutions to Microservices. - Analyzed cloud financials, including ratio analysis, ROI for investments, TVM for CAPEX and OPEX models, and DCF for stepped fixed costs to variable costs. - Built and enhanced technical relationships with Microsoft Strategic teams and Partner Managers to cultivate new opportunities.