Microsoft

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • Preferred Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • Experience shipping products end to end with cross-functional engineering teams
  • Experience in digital advertising or ad tech, particularly in automated bidding or budget pacing
  • Solid analytical skills with large datasets
  • Familiarity with concepts like CPA, ROAS, and attribution
  • Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and roadmap for a core area of automated bidding or budgets.
  • Define how advertiser goals translate into system behavior.
  • Partner with applied science on bidding models, shaping objectives and evaluation criteria.
  • Improve budget pacing and allocation for predictable delivery.
  • Make bidding processes clear to advertisers with goal setting and diagnostics.
  • Prove impact through online experimentation on outcomes.
  • Balance advertiser return, spend growth, and marketplace efficiency.
  • Mentor other product managers and elevate product thinking within the team.

Benefits

  • Work from the office at least four days per week starting January 26, 2026, depending on various commuting distances.
  • Mentorship and growth opportunities within a collaborative team environment.
Full Job Description
Overview

Every advertiser asks two questions: how much should I bid, and how much should I spend? Automated bidding answers them millions of times a day - setting bids against each advertiser's cost, value, and return goals, and pacing budgets so spend lands where it earns the most.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own a core area of automated bidding and budgets. You will decide what our bid strategies optimize for, how predictably they deliver, and what advertisers see when they don't.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities
  • Own the strategy and roadmap for a core area of automated bidding or budgets, end to end.
  • Define how advertiser goals - conversion volume, conversion value, target CPA, target ROAS, clicks - translate into system behavior.
  • Partner with applied science on the models behind bidding, shaping objectives and evaluation criteria.
  • Improve how budgets pace and allocate, so delivery is predictable across the day, campaign, and season.
  • Make bidding legible to advertisers: goal setting, target attainment, diagnostics, and controls.
  • Prove impact through online experimentation on noisy, delayed outcomes.
  • Balance advertiser return, spend growth, and marketplace efficiency, and make the trade-offs explicit.
  • Mentor other product managers and raise the bar for product thinking on the team.
  • Embody our Culture and Values.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience shipping products end to end with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Experience using data to drive product decisions and measure outcomes.
  • Experience in digital advertising or ad tech in one of: automated bidding, budget pacing, auction dynamics and pricing, conversion measurement and attribution, or ad ranking.
  • Experience with products backed by machine learning models, including defining objectives, evaluation criteria, and guardrails.
  • Solid analytical skills, including comfort working directly with large datasets.
  • Experience designing and interpreting online controlled experiments.
  • Familiarity with advertiser performance concepts such as CPA, ROAS, incrementality, attribution, and conversion delay.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.


#MicrosoftAI

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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