Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Advertising

Microsoft

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Hybrid

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Hybrid
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Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Apr 14, 2027

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This role pays less than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $191,650–$247,800 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $220k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Advertising

The Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Advertising will join the team responsible for the infrastructure powering the Microsoft Advertising buying experience. This role focuses on the transition beyond graphical user interfaces toward programmatic interactions for advertisers, agencies, partners, and AI agents. The successful candidate will own the product strategy and roadmap for the Microsoft Ads API and the Model Context Protocol experience. Key responsibilities include designing interfaces for the next generation of software, building reliable MCP interfaces for AI agents, and leading go-to-market efforts. Required skills include experience with API contracts, authentication, schemas, versioning, and developer workflows. The role requires technical proficiency with APIs and knowledge of the ads ecosystem, specifically regarding campaign management, large language models, and agentic capabilities.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199125 from 772 postings across 95 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and communicate the product strategy and roadmap for Microsoft Ads MCP and API.
  • Build MCP into a reliable interface for AI agents to manage advertising campaigns.
  • Lead go-to-market efforts with marketing and sales to drive product adoption.
  • Define and own the success measures for MCP and API end-to-end.
  • Establish Microsoft Ads as a leader in developer and agentic tooling.
  • Design the interface between Microsoft Advertising and next-generation software.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of experience in product, service, or program management, or equivalent experience.
  • Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management, or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of the ads ecosystem, specifically the buy-side, including API, MCP, campaign management, or agentic capabilities (preferred).
  • Experience with AI agents, large language models, MCP, or related developer technologies (preferred).
  • Understanding of API contracts, authentication, schemas, versioning, reliability, and developer workflows (preferred).
  • Demonstrated technical proficiency working directly with APIs (preferred).
  • Experience using written communication to engage stakeholders and customers (preferred).

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