Technical Program Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

15d

About The Position

Have you ever opened a Power BI report and immediately seen opportunities to improve clarity, usability, and impact? Do you thrive on bringing clarity to ambiguous stakeholder needs, uncovering gaps they may not even see yet, and turning those insights into welldesigned, scalable solutions? Can you balance multiple workstreams, perspectives, and priorities—and still deliver with excellence? If so, Microsoft Advertising wants to hear from you. Microsoft Advertising is a global Sales, Marketing, and Services organization at the forefront of digital advertising. We power the buying and selling of advertising across Microsoft’s digital portfolio, including our highgrowth search engine, Bing. As a Technical Program Manager on the Analytics & Applications team, you will help our Marketing and Small & Medium Business (SMB) teams drive longterm business and customer growth through selfserve analytics, insights, and reporting. You’ll serve as a strategic partner—looking beyond what’s requested to understand what stakeholders truly need—and work closely with analysts and developers to design, build, and launch highimpact solutions. This role carries end-to-end ownership from intake and prioritization through delivery, launch, adoption, and ongoing support. You will serve as the central point of accountability for translating business needs into high impact data and reporting solutions—primarily across Power BI analytics assets, with scope extending into data enablement, insights, and tooling. At Microsoft, you’ll find strong sponsorship for your work, meaningful opportunities for growth, and a culture that values authenticity, collaboration, and inclusion. Guided by our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we show up each day with a growth mindset, act with integrity, and create an environment where everyone can thrive.

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

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years’ experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
Demonstrated experience driving intake, prioritization, and execution across multiple stakeholders, balancing business impact, urgency, and technical feasibility.
Experience working with Search Advertising or digital advertising analytics, including performance reporting, insights, or measurement used to inform business decisions.
Experience with end-to-end data and reporting frameworks, with a solid understanding of how backend data pipelines, data platforms (E.g Microsoft Fabric), and BI tools like Power BI integrate to deliver Business Reporting.
Experience partnering on Power BI or similar analytics solutions, including requirements definition, design feedback, validation, and stakeholder adoption.
Working proficiency with analytics or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R) sufficient to independently validate data, ask the right technical questions, and partner deeply with analytics and engineering teams.
Strong working understanding of data infrastructure and BI/reporting systems, including how data is sourced, transformed, modeled, and consumed.
Hands on experience managing work through Azure DevOps (ADO) or a comparable work item tracking system.
Highly organized, detail oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a track record of independently managing multiple concurrent initiatives.
Advanced Excel proficiency for analysis, validation, and decision support.
Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, or SMB analytics use cases, where reporting directly informs business decisions.
Strong data fluency, with the ability to reason about data quality, definitions, dependencies, and limitations—even when not writing production code.
Experience driving analytics adoption and enablement, including stakeholder education, demos, documentation, and ongoing usage guidance.
Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business audiences.

Responsibilities

Strategic Intake & Prioritization
Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Analytics, and Business leaders to deeply understand goals, gaps, and highest value opportunities.
Own intake and management of requests within our centralized work item system (Azure DevOps).
Drive prioritization decisions grounded in organizational priorities, business impact, and customer value—making tradeoffs explicit and transparent.
Program & Dependency Management
Develop a deep understanding of each request, including technical requirements, data dependencies, risks, and blockers.
Actively manage and unblock crossteam dependencies, advocating for required data and tooling deliverables from partner teams.
Pace delivery plans based on dependency readiness, adjusting timelines and expectations proactively.
Solution Definition & Delivery
Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements, ensuring nuance and intent are well understood by delivery teams.
Provide strong input into solution design, with a focus on scalability, usability, and longterm maintainability.
Validate delivered solutions against requirements, driving feedback loops and iterations to ensure high quality and business relevance.
Launch, Adoption & Support
Own solution readiness and launch, including stakeholder communications, demos, trainings, and office hours as needed.
Ensure analytics assets are well understood, adopted, and effectively used by stakeholders.
Act as the single point of accountability for postlaunch support, including bug triage, issue resolution, and ongoing questions.
Own the role of strategic partner to stakeholders, helping them stay connected to reporting, understand how to apply insights in different business scenarios, and maximize impact from analytics and tooling over time.