Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Advertising
About The Position
Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the product strategy and roadmap for Microsoft Ads API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) experiences. The role focuses on helping advertisers, agencies, partners, developers, and AI agents programmatically create, understand, optimize, and manage advertising campaigns. It operates at the intersection of advertising, developer platforms, and AI agents, with opportunities to shape both the product and the team. The Product Manager will work across engineering, product, design, partner teams, and customers to make Microsoft Advertising easier to build on and easier for agents to use. The role includes building MCP into a reliable interface for AI agents, leading go-to-market efforts, defining end-to-end success measures, and establishing Microsoft Ads as a leader in developer and agentic tooling. AI Experiences employees living within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in product, service, or program management, or equivalent experience.
- Working knowledge of the ads ecosystem, particularly the buy-side, including API, MCP, campaign management, or agentic capabilities.
- Experience with AI agents, large language models, MCP, or related developer technologies.
- Understanding of API contracts, authentication, schemas, versioning, reliability, and developer workflows.
- Demonstrated technical proficiency working directly with APIs.
- Experience using written communication to engage stakeholders and customers.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management, or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate the strategy and roadmap for Microsoft Ads MCP and API.
- Build MCP into a reliable interface through which AI agents can understand and manage advertising campaigns.
- Lead go-to-market efforts with marketing and sales to drive adoption, improve creative coverage, and deliver measurable advertiser impact.
- Define and own end-to-end success measures for MCP and API.
- Establish Microsoft Ads as a leader in developer and agentic tooling.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
