Full job description
Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the Advertising Billing Platform, covering pricing, billing generation, invoicing, payments, reconciliation, and financial reporting. The role requires partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, Tax, and Operations teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and accurate billing systems globally. Responsibilities include managing dependencies, ensuring global compliance, leading program execution, and measuring business impact. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree with 6+ years experience in engineering or technical program management and 3+ years managing cross-functional projects. Preferred qualifications include 10+ years technical program management experience, expertise in billing, payments, fintech, financial systems, risk management, and experience working with complex distributed systems and global compliance. Salary ranges from $142,800 to $274,800 annually, with higher ranges for San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
What you'll do
- Drive Billing Platform execution: create and translate PRDs into clear plans, manage dependencies, and deliver across billing, invoicing, payments, and financial integrations
- Own end-to-end billing delivery: ensure reliability across pricing, billing, invoicing, payments, reconciliation, including complex scenarios like rebilling and payment flows
- Ensure global compliance and scale: partner with Finance, Tax, and Legal to deliver compliant, localized billing systems and support new markets and business models
- Manage cross-system dependencies: coordinate across Ads platform, payments systems, and finance integrations to unblock delivery and align timelines
- Lead program execution and communication: drive planning, risk management, and executive-level reporting with clear ownership and no-surprise delivery
- Measure business impact: track revenue, billing accuracy, payment success, and support reduction; use data to guide prioritization
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, or product development OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
- 10+ years of technical program or project management experience delivering large-scale systems
- Experience in billing, payments, fintech, or financial systems (invoicing, tax, reconciliation)
- Experience working closely with Engineering and Product in complex distributed systems including an understanding system architecture
- Experience driving execution across multiple teams and system dependencies
- Experience in risk management, planning, and end-to-end release delivery
- Experience communicating effectively at all levels, including executive audiences
- Background in advertising or marketplace platforms
- Familiarity with financial integrations (SAP, tax engines, invoicing systems)
- Familiarity with payment systems and risk/fraud workflows
- Familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, and service health concepts
- Experience driving globally compliant systems across multiple markets
Tech stack
SAPtax enginesinvoicing systemspayment systemsrisk/fraud workflowsAPIsdata pipelinesservice health concepts
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensationAdditional benefits and pay information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay