Principal Product Manager

Technology, Data & Digital · Product & Design · Product Management

In short

Microsoft's AI Monetization Product Team is hiring Principal Product Managers to build and scale advertising, commerce, and revenue-generating experiences across their AI and consumer ecosystem. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, driving roadmaps, and partnering across various teams to deliver impactful solutions for advertisers and consumers, with potential focus on either the Advertising Platform & Systems or Consumer Advertising Experiences.

Responsibilities

Define and drive product strategy, vision, and roadmap for key advertising and monetization investments.
Partner with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, and Product Marketing to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Use customer insights, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making to prioritize investments and measure success.
Navigate ambiguity, influence across organizational boundaries, and build alignment among stakeholders.
Evaluate emerging trends in digital advertising, retail media, commerce, AI, and machine learning to identify new growth opportunities.
Communicate product vision, strategy, and results to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Define requirements for advertising infrastructure, services, APIs, ranking systems, measurement capabilities, experimentation platforms, and monetization systems (Platform & Systems focus).
Drive investments that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency across the advertising ecosystem (Platform & Systems focus).
Partner closely with engineering teams on architecture, platform strategy, and long-term technical roadmaps (Platform & Systems focus).
Lead initiatives that improve search, discovery, shopping, and purchase-related user journeys through innovative advertising experiences (Consumer Experiences focus).
Partner with design and research teams to deliver intuitive, relevant, and engaging consumer experiences (Consumer Experiences focus).
Drive improvements in user engagement, advertiser performance, and customer satisfaction through AI-powered recommendations and personalization (Consumer Experiences focus).

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management including experience advertising in retail or consumer products, OR equivalent experience.
Experience owning product strategy, roadmap development, and execution for complex products or platforms.
Experience using data, experimentation, and customer insights to drive decision-making.
Experience building and scaling advertising, commerce, search, marketplace, recommendation, or consumer products.
Experience leading products from concept through launch and long-term growth.
Experience improving product, customer, or business metrics through experimentation and optimization.
Experience building products leveraging machine learning, recommendation systems, ranking technologies, generative AI, or large language models.
Experience building large-scale services, platforms, APIs, data systems, infrastructure, experimentation frameworks, or monetization technologies (Platform & Systems focus).
Technical depth and ability to partner effectively with engineering teams on architecture and platform investments (Platform & Systems focus).
Working knowledge of SQL and programming languages such as Python or JavaScript (Platform & Systems focus).
Experience building consumer-facing experiences in search, discovery, shopping, advertising, or e-commerce (Consumer Experiences focus).
Strong customer obsession and expertise in UX, customer journeys, personalization, and engagement strategies (Consumer Experiences focus).
Experience partnering closely with design, user research, and customer insight teams (Consumer Experiences focus).

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years of experience in Product Management, Program Management, Software Development, or a related field.
Technical depth and ability to partner effectively with engineering teams on architecture and platform investments.
Working knowledge of SQL and programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Experience building consumer-facing experiences in search, discovery, shopping, advertising, or e-commerce.
Strong customer obsession and expertise in UX, customer journeys, personalization, and engagement strategies.
Experience partnering closely with design, user research, and customer insight teams.

Benefits

Eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Skills

SQLPythonJavaScript

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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

4 days ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

Hybrid

Salary

US$142,800–274,800 · Negotiable

Hours per week

Experience Level

Mid-Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Bachelor

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