Principal Product Manager, Ads Search

Microsoft

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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Feb 27, 2027

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This role $209k
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This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $174,731–$238,837 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Ads Search

As a Principal Product Manager, Ads Search - Retail Lead on the AI Monetization Product Team, you will shape the future of advertising and monetization experiences. You will define product strategy, vision, and roadmaps while collaborating with engineering, design, data science, and research teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. Depending on your expertise, you will focus on either building foundational infrastructure, such as APIs, ranking systems, and experimentation frameworks, or developing consumer-facing search, discovery, and shopping experiences powered by AI. The role requires leveraging machine learning, recommendation systems, and large language models to improve advertiser performance and user engagement. Candidates should possess experience in retail media, commerce, and digital advertising. Technical requirements include proficiency with SQL and programming languages like Python or JavaScript for platform roles, while consumer-focused roles prioritize expertise in UX and personalization.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $204200 from 424 postings across 77 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive product strategy, vision, and roadmaps for advertising and monetization investments.
  • Use customer insights and experimentation data to prioritize investments and measure success.
  • Identify new growth opportunities by evaluating trends in digital advertising, retail media, and AI.
  • Communicate product vision and results to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
  • Develop infrastructure, APIs, and ranking systems for scalable advertising platforms and services.
  • Improve search, discovery, and shopping journeys through AI-powered recommendations and personalization.
  • Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, and performance across the advertising ecosystem.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product management including advertising in retail or consumer products.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in product management, program management, software development, or a related field.
  • Experience owning product strategy, roadmap development, and execution for complex products or platforms.
  • Experience building and scaling advertising, commerce, search, marketplace, recommendation, or consumer products.
  • Experience building products leveraging machine learning, ranking technologies, generative AI, or large language models.
  • Ability to use data, experimentation, and customer insights to drive decision-making and improve business metrics.
  • Technical depth in infrastructure, APIs, and data systems with knowledge of SQL and programming languages like Python or JavaScript.
  • Experience partnering with design, research, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive consumer experiences or scalable platform architectures.

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