Senior Product Manager

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.

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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.

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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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