Principal Technical Program Manager

The Microsoft AI Monetization team plays a pivotal role in shaping how Microsoft generates value from its AI innovations, particularly through products like Copilot, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft Advertising. This cross-functional organization is responsible for driving new monetization opportunities, business growth, and pioneering bold bets in AI-driven experiences. 

Join our high-impact Program Management (PGMT) team and help lead execution across Microsoft AI Monetization. Our PGMT’s are embedded in the heart of strategic initiatives that power the ai platform shift, create new canvases for monetization growth, enable publisher platforms, real-time systems, and state of the art personalized models. We operate at the intersection of engineering, product, design, and business—ensuring that complex programs are delivered with a customer focus, strategic clarity, and measurable impact.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will play a crucial role to help manage the core infrastructure and services behind AI monetization at scale. In this role, you will collaborate and drive high-impact, data-intensive projects with deep AI/ML integration, leading critical cross-org initiatives from problem statement to production launch. You’ll apply data driven and customer-oriented focus to understand the needs and help drive realistic customer expectations and also define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner to identify and explore new opportunities. If you thrive in high-scale environments and are passionate about systems that make a measurable impact, we want to hear from you.

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Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex, cross-functional technical programs that drive value for the Microsoft Ads business.
• Set vision and strategy for technical programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term impact.
• Partner with multiple engineering teams to design and implement scalable solutions across multiple feature areas.
• Define success criteria, track project schedules, and ensure alignment across business and technical stakeholders.
• Drive execution of roadmap items, including staging, implementation, and governance for multiple feature groups.
• Identify and resolve project dependencies and blockers, proposing solutions to keep initiatives on track.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks at scale, ensuring program success.
• Apply a metric-driven approach to measure impact and continuously improve processes and outcomes.
• Conduct thorough reviews of data analysis, modeling techniques, and identify new evaluation methods.
• Update internal best practices for data collection and preparation, and contribute to data integrity conversations
• Lead programs across global, distributed teams and manage cross-geo execution.
• Champion a culture of quality, rigor, and truth-seeking—ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and grounded in data and facts.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 2+ years of data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale personalization and recommendation systems for content, advertising, or similar domains.
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ year(s) of experience writing code (e.g., product demos, ad-hoc analysis using SQL, Kusto, Python etc.).
• Experience with high-scale, data-intensive systems, especially in advertising technology (Azure data stack knowledge is a plus or other big data platforms).
• Expertise with AI/ML recommendation systems at scale.
• Proven ability to drive metric-and-impact driven outcomes.
• OR equivalent experience.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 14, 2025.

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