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Posted date: Jul 29, 2025
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Category: Program Management
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Join Microsoft Ads as a Principal Technical Program Manager and help build the core infrastructure behind ad delivery, identity & privacy, experimentation, tooling, and monetization at scale. In this role, you will drive high-impact, data-intensive projects with deep AI/ML integration, leading critical cross-org initiatives from problem statement to production launch. You will set vision and strategy for technical programs, influence senior leadership, and drive alignment across multiple organizations.You will partner closely with product and engineering leads to deliver solutions that move the business forward, resolve complex issues, and identify growth opportunities. If you thrive in high-scale environments and are passionate about building systems that make a measurable impact, we want to hear from you.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Lead and deliver complex, cross-functional technical programs that drive value for the Microsoft Ads business.Set vision and strategy for technical programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term impact.Partner with multiple engineering teams to design and implement scalable solutions across multiple feature areas.Define success criteria, track project schedules, and ensure alignment across business and technical stakeholders.Drive execution of roadmap items, including staging, implementation, and governance for multiple feature groups.Identify and resolve project dependencies and blockers, proposing solutions to keep initiatives on track.Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks at scale, ensuring program success.Apply a metric-driven approach to measure impact and continuously improve processes and outcomes.Champion experimentation (A/B testing) and data-driven decision-making across the organization.Lead programs across global, distributed teams and manage cross-geo execution.Champion a culture of quality, rigor, and truth-seeking—ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and grounded in data and facts.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.3+ years of expereince building large-scale personalization and recommendation systems for content, advertising, or similar domains.Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos, ad-hoc analysis using SQL, Kusto, Python etc.).
Experience with high-scale, data-intensive systems, especially in advertising technology (Azure data stack knowledge is a plus or other big data platforms).
Expertise with AI/ML recommendation systems at scale.
Proficient understanding of the ads stack or recommendation-based systems and experimentation platforms.
Proven ability to drive metric- and impact-driven outcomes.
Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 18th, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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