Full job description
The MAI Monetization organization at Microsoft Advertising seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead AI-powered advertising product initiatives. The role involves owning product strategy, roadmap, and delivery from concept to launch, translating business goals into clear requirements, partnering with Engineering and Design, managing backlogs, and driving execution. The candidate will define and monitor product metrics, lead A/B testing, and ensure responsible AI practices. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent, with preferred qualifications including 8+ years experience, strong product management in advertising or AI/ML products, hands-on engineering collaboration, experimentation expertise, knowledge of advertising technology, generative AI experience, and coding ability. The position is full-time, on-site in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA, with salary ranges from $119,800 to $234,700 annually, higher in select metro areas.
What you'll do
- Own product strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery from concept to launch
- Translate business goals into clear PRDs, user stories, and measurable success criteria
- Partner with Engineering and Design to prioritize scope, make tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality releases
- Drive execution by managing backlogs, tracking progress, removing blockers, and ensuring on-time delivery
- Define and monitor product metrics, leveraging data and experimentation to guide decisions
- Lead A/B testing and iterative product improvements to optimize customer and business outcomes
- Deliver AI-powered advertiser monetization experiences while ensuring responsible and trustworthy AI practices
- Align cross-functional stakeholders, manage dependencies, and own launch readiness, release quality, and post-launch performance
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
- Preferred: Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years of product management experience with a solid bias for execution and delivery, ideally for advertising, search, commerce, marketplace, recommendation, or AI/ML-powered products
- Track record of shipping products and features end-to-end at scale, working hands-on with engineering through the full cycle (specs, flighting, launch, telemetry)
- Solid experimentation background — designing and interpreting A/B tests and using data to drive product decisions
- Working knowledge of advertising technology: auctions, bidding, ranking/relevance, targeting, and campaign platforms
- Experience with generative AI, Copilot, personalization, or recommendation experiences
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate crisply to executives
- 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code
Tech stack
AImachine learninggenerative AICopilotadvertising technologyauctionsbiddingrankingrelevancetargetingcampaign platformsA/B testingdata experimentation
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (details at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay)