Full job description
Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for the Opportunity Analytics team within Global Business Planning. The role focuses on analyzing monetization performance and identifying growth opportunities across regions, products, and advertiser segments. Responsibilities include developing frameworks to identify growth opportunities, partnering with business and sales teams, analyzing large data sets, collaborating across teams, and providing strategic recommendations. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree with 4+ years in engineering, program management, data analysis or product development, and 2+ years managing cross-functional projects. Preferred qualifications include 6+ years applying analytics to business problems, strong problem-solving skills, experience with SQL, PowerBI, Python, and MS Excel, and excellent communication skills. The position is full-time, on-site in New York, NY, with a salary range of $119,800 to $234,700 USD annually, higher in the SF Bay Area and NYC metro. Microsoft values inclusion, respect, integrity, and accountability.
What you'll do
- Lead & develop an effective framework to identify growth opportunities through analysis of marketplace, advertiser and monetization trends for the global markets
- Drive demand programs in partnership with relevant teams to help execute against the opportunities
- Serve as the key partner to Business Planning, Demand Planning, Market Sciences, and Sales Strategy teams on opportunities, programs and measurement
- Work on ad-hoc projects analyzing large quantities of data to generate meaningful actionable insights for advertisers
- Collaborate with different parts/teams of the Microsoft Advertising ecosystem to leverage diverse assets and tools towards solving on-demand business problems
- Showcase thought leadership by unlocking newer and lesser explored areas of driving sustainable advertiser demand growth through effective monitoring of demand performance, quality, and diversification
- Develop suitable frameworks and build the case for Leadership team buy-in where appropriate
- Research evolving industry trends and competitive landscape to understand implications for business and advertiser base
- Develop and land strategic recommendations with business leadership
- Provide thought leadership, advice, influence and insight to partners across other teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- 6+ years of experience applying sophisticated analytics to solve complex business questions (preferred)
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Experience with turning large scale data into actionable insights and decisions
- Hands-on approach to data analysis / data mining with a solid focus on quality
- Experience with MS Excel
- Superior communications skills, both verbal and written and ability to engage with business partners and executives to influence and drive data based strategic decisions
- Experience with SQL, PowerBI and Python
Tech stack
SQLPowerBIPythonMS Excel
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensationLink to additional benefits and pay information: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay