Principal Product Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (AI): Responsible for defining and driving the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft’s Ads audience platform powering ads targeting and personalization with an accent on identity, machine learning, and large-scale data systems. Focus on unlocking intelligent audience capabilities that drive measurable impact for advertisers and enable richer personalization experiences across Microsoft products.

Location: Must 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 and are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.

Salary: USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year.

Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

What you will do

• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft’s Ads audience platform powering ads targeting and personalization.
• Build scalable infrastructure that enables audiences to be defined once and activated across multiple surfaces including search, native, display, video, and gaming.
• Partner with data science and applied research teams to design and launch machine learning–based audience models that improve reach, relevance, and advertiser performance.
• Drive experimentation and evaluation frameworks to measure audience quality, performance lift, and coverage.
• Establish best practices for experimentation, customer feedback loops, and data-driven product development across the audience platform team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of identity resolution, audience modeling, and data activation in advertising ecosystems.
• Solid analytical mindset with experience using data and experimentation to guide product decisions.
• Excellent communication — able to translate technical and economic concepts into executive language.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in building advertising audience and/ or identity solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
• Values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.