Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Advertising
About The Position
Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the roadmap and product strategy for Microsoft Ads API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) experiences. The role sits at the intersection of advertising, developer platforms, and AI agents, helping advertisers, agencies, partners, developers, and AI agents programmatically create, understand, optimize, and manage advertising campaigns. 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 position offers the opportunity to shape both the product and the team, and to help establish Microsoft Advertising as a leader in developer and agentic tooling. AI Experiences employees who live 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 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management, or equivalent experience.
- Working knowledge of the advertising 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 12+ 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, ensuring product launches drive adoption, improve creative coverage, and deliver measurable advertiser impact.
- Define and own success measures for MCP and API end-to-end.
- Establish Microsoft Ads as a leader in developer and agentic tooling.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through Microsoft Careers.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
