Principal Product Manager

Microsoft Advertising is building the next generation of monetization experiences across Microsoft owned-and-operated surfaces and our partner ecosystem. Our Inventory team sits at the center of that work: turning high-quality consumer and commercial experiences into durable, trustworthy, measurable advertising opportunities for customers and partners.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead one or more high-impact initiatives across our non-Search portfolio. This role may focus on areas such as Gaming, Outlook, MSN, Copilot-adjacent surfaces, or emerging inventory experiences. The common thread is to define the product strategy, customer value, measurement framework, and execution plan that help Microsoft create premium, brand-safe, performance-oriented supply while preserving a high-quality user experience.

This is a role for a product leader who is energized by ambiguous spaces, complex marketplace dynamics, and cross-company execution. You will partner closely with engineering, design, data science, sales, business planning, finance, and partner teams to identify the right opportunities, validate them with evidence, and ship products that improve advertiser outcomes, publisher and surface value, and user trust.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Define and drive product strategy for a portfolio of non-Search inventory initiatives, translating business opportunities into clear customer problems, product bets, success metrics, and execution plans.

• Lead product discovery across advertisers, agencies, internal sales teams, surface owners, and engineering partners to identify high-value inventory opportunities and sharpen the why now for each investment.

• Develop crisp product requirements, roadmap priorities, launch plans, and tradeoff recommendations that balance advertiser demand, surface experience quality, marketplace economics, privacy, policy, and technical feasibility.

• Partner with engineering, data science, and design to ship scalable inventory products and measurement capabilities that improve yield, quality, relevance, and advertiser confidence.

• Use data, experimentation, customer feedback, and marketplace signals to evaluate product performance, diagnose issues, and make prioritization decisions.

• Create alignment across Microsoft Advertising, MAI, surface teams, sales, finance, and other stakeholders by communicating product vision, progress, risks, and decisions clearly at multiple levels.

• Help evolve Microsoft inventory strategy from fragmented surface-by-surface opportunities into a more unified, premium, measurable, and durable product portfolio.

• Model Microsoft culture by bringing curiosity, customer obsession, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, and high accountability to cross-functional product work.