OverviewMicrosoft Advertising is building the next generation of monetization experiences across Microsoft owned-and-operated surfaces and our partner ecosystem. Our Inventory team sits at the center of that work: turning high-quality consumer and commercial experiences into durable, trustworthy, measurable advertising opportunities for customers and partners.
We are looking for a
Principal Product Manager to lead one or more high-impact initiatives across our non-Search portfolio. This role may focus on areas such as Gaming, Outlook, MSN, Copilot-adjacent surfaces, or emerging inventory experiences. The common thread is to define the product strategy, customer value, measurement framework, and execution plan that help Microsoft create premium, brand-safe, performance-oriented supply while preserving a high-quality user experience.
This is a role for a product leader who is energized by ambiguous spaces, complex marketplace dynamics, and cross-company execution. You will partner closely with engineering, design, data science, sales, business planning, finance, and partner teams to identify the right opportunities, validate them with evidence, and ship products that improve advertiser outcomes, publisher and surface value, and user trust.
Responsibilities- 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.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualification:- 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.
Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
