Jen Sieger

Attackers stopped working alone. They coordinate now through agents. So, we built Project Perception: our new multi-agent defense system. Red, blue, and green team agents work together to continuously expose weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen your defenses, while you stay in control of every critical decision. The video explains it better than a caption can. Or, read the full announcement in the comments.

Turns out "𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜?" can sometimes bring the absolute best news, like being awarded the 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐦 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 award for FY26, Microsoft's highest recognition! 🏆 There’s a lot to be grateful for and so many people to acknowledge: 🔹Firstly, my manager, Marcin Hryciuk - Thank you for your trust, encouragement, and for championing my growth every step of the way 🔹Deeply grateful to Sharon Schoenborn, Linda Sampson, and the SME&C leadership team for creating opportunities and fostering an environment where we can all do our best work 🔹A huge shoutout to my core team (Whitehouse Ina, Melissa Hart, MBA, CPA, CIA, Samuel Broadwell, Bing Yang, Gillian Raposo, CPA, Naomi Schwartz) and our Business partners (Ray Conner, Onur Altintas, Simon Hardman, Erica L., Joseph Barnette, Raluca Olteanu, Larry McWaters, Mark Selin, Avinash Mishra, Ana Curlic, Niclas Rockmann, Sarah Steiger, Jen Sieger, Kelly Erasmus, Warren Johnson, Lydie Toupin-Mulvihill, Shashank Hulke and many others). Thank you for the collaboration, the brainstorming, and the spirited discussions! This recognition is a true reflection of the #OneMicrosoft culture, and undoubtedly a core highlight of my Microsoft journey so far. Here's to continuous learning, building together, and making FY27 even more exciting! 🚀 #Microsoft #MCAPS #PlatinumClub #GrowthMindset

There are moments in your career when you stop and think: "Holy sh*t. I made it." I remember getting my first proper job out of university: a Microsoft Australia internship. They handed me a brick-sized laptop and I remember thinking, this is it. I made it. Thank you to Catherine Vissiere and Steven Miller for taking a chance on me. A year later, Oscar Trimboli took me under his wing and suddenly I was helping project manage the 2008 Wave launch. Then came what felt like an impossible dream. Through hustle, luck, and the generosity of others, I managed to leave Australia and move halfway across the world to Toronto. Stepping onto Canadian soil at 24 years old, I thought: "Holy moly. I made it." Thank you, Tara Powadiuk, for taking a chance on a young girl with big dreams. Four years later came another leap. With the sponsorship of Cheri Chevalier and what felt like a wildly ambitious decision by Christian Frei, I joined the Western Europe CMO HQ team. I was completely out of my depth, but I had achieved my dream of living and working in Europe. "I made it." Then came World Wide Learning, where India McGill had an enormous influence on me despite never being my direct manager. It's where I learned the power of investing in people. A few years later, I was unexpectedly riffed. Instead, Nathan Weyer welcomed me into the Philips Experience Design family, allowing me to continue my European adventure and experience the importance of the health-tech industry during those COVID years. And then came another unexpected chapter. Microsoft. Again. Thanks to Philip Jordan, I got the chance to come back. I'll always be grateful. I remember thinking: "Holy smokes. I made it back." Over the last four years, I've had the privilege of learning under incredible leaders including Scott Allen, Svetlana Likhareva and Kelly Obach, who helped shape the leader I am today. And now... I have that feeling again: gratitude, disbelief, excitement, and a little imposter syndrome. Because I'm incredibly excited to share that I've started a new role in SME&C as the EMEA SME&C Marketing Excellence Lead. It feels like I've made it. Not because of the title or the role. But because when I look back over nearly two decades, I see a career built on people who opened doors, took chances, offered coaching, gave sponsorship, and believed in me before I was ready to believe in myself. Thank you to Martin Cullen, Deirdre Bourke, Maja Løve Dybdahl, Gordon Tate, Donagh O'Shea, Tim Nagels, Marie Laffey, and the many others who have supported me along the way. And most importantly, thank you, Jen Sieger, for taking a bet on me and inviting me to be part of the incredible transformation you're already leading. I'm already enjoying the ride. To everyone who has been part of this journey: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And to that young Australian intern carrying around a ridiculously large Microsoft laptop all those years ago... We made it. ❤️