Principal Product Manager

What you'll do

• Define and drive product strategy for a portfolio of non-Search inventory initiatives, translating business opportunities into clear customer problems, product bets, success metrics, and execution plans
• Lead product discovery across advertisers, agencies, internal sales teams, surface owners, and engineering partners to identify high-value inventory opportunities and sharpen the why now for each investment
• Develop crisp product requirements, roadmap priorities, launch plans, and tradeoff recommendations that balance advertiser demand, surface experience quality, marketplace economics, privacy, policy, and technical feasibility
• Partner with engineering, data science, and design to ship scalable inventory products and measurement capabilities that improve yield, quality, relevance, and advertiser confidence
• Use data, experimentation, customer feedback, and marketplace signals to evaluate product performance, diagnose issues, and make prioritization decisions
• Create alignment across Microsoft Advertising, MAI, surface teams, sales, finance, and other stakeholders by communicating product vision, progress, risks, and decisions clearly at multiple levels
• Help evolve Microsoft inventory strategy from fragmented surface-by-surface opportunities into a more unified, premium, measurable, and durable product portfolio
• Model Microsoft culture by bringing curiosity, customer obsession, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, and high accountability to cross-functional product work

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience driving product strategy, roadmap definition, requirements, and execution for complex software, advertising, marketplace, commerce, media, or platform products
• Experience using data, experimentation, customer research, or business analysis to identify opportunities, make product tradeoffs, and measure outcomes
• Experience partnering with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver products or features from concept through launch and iteration
• Experience communicating in written and verbal formats to simplify ambiguous problems and influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Experience in digital advertising, monetization, inventory quality, campaign management, yield optimization, brand safety, measurement, or media marketplaces
• Experience working on consumer or commercial surfaces, commerce, content, or other scaled digital experiences
• Experience operating in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments and convert early signals into structured product plans and measurable outcomes
• Technical fluency with platform architecture, APIs, data pipelines, experimentation systems, privacy/security considerations, or machine learning-driven product experiences
• Ability to reason across user experience, advertiser value, marketplace economics, partner incentives, and long-term platform strategy

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