Sr. Technical Program Manager - Opportunity Analytics
About The Position
Microsoft Advertising (MSA) is seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager for the Opportunity Analytics team within the Global Business Planning function. This role focuses on analyzing monetization performance and identifying growth opportunities across regions, products, and advertiser segments globally. The position involves working with large datasets to understand growth drivers within the ad platform, publishers, advertisers, and consumers in international markets. A key responsibility is developing strategies to translate marketplace trends into actionable advertiser growth opportunities, collaborating with stakeholders to create sales initiatives, and measuring their impact. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of the global advertising space, particularly performance advertising and audience-led buying across search, display, native, or programmatic. Strong analytical skills for complex business questions and superior communication skills to influence partners and stakeholders are essential. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees are encouraged to have a growth mindset, innovate, and collaborate to achieve shared goals, upholding values of respect, integrity, and accountability to foster an inclusive culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Nice To Haves
- 6+ years of experience applying sophisticated analytics to solve complex business questions.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with turning large scale data into actionable insights and decisions.
- Hands-on approach to data analysis / data mining with a solid focus on quality.
- Experience with MS Excel.
- Superior communications skills, both verbal and written and ability to engage with business partners and executives to influence and drive data based strategic decisions.
- Experience with SQL, PowerBI and Python.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop an effective framework to identify growth opportunities through analysis of marketplace, advertiser, and monetization trends for global markets.
- Drive demand programs in partnership with relevant teams to help execute against identified opportunities.
- Serve as the key partner to Business Planning, Demand Planning, Market Sciences, and Sales Strategy teams on opportunities, programs, and measurement.
- Work on ad-hoc projects involving the analysis of large quantities of data to generate meaningful actionable insights for advertisers.
- Collaborate with different parts of the Microsoft Advertising ecosystem to leverage diverse assets and tools towards solving on-demand business problems.
- Showcase thought leadership by unlocking newer and lesser explored areas of driving sustainable advertiser demand growth through effective monitoring of demand performance, quality, and diversification.
- Develop suitable frameworks and build the case for Leadership team buy-in, where appropriate.
- Research evolving industry trends and the competitive landscape to understand implications for the business and advertiser base.
- Develop and land strategic recommendations with business leadership.
- Provide thought leadership, advice, influence, and insight to partners across other teams.
- Embody our culture and values.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
