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The Microsoft Ads Marketplace connects advertisers with billions of daily queries across global search partners. Ensuring that this marketplace remains healthy, efficient, and innovative is essential to delivering high‑quality ad experiences and strong business outcomes for both publishers and advertisers. As a Technical Program Manager on the Marketplace Management team, you will own critical components of this ecosystem, driving product capabilities, partner integrations, and marketplace health initiatives that shape the future of Microsoft Ads.
Job Responsibility:
Manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle of marketplace capabilities for Search publishers, including defining requirements, prioritizing features, and driving execution across engineering teams
Lead the delivery of new marketplace features and enhancements that improve partner performance, system efficiency, and advertiser outcomes
Ensure marketplace configurations, policies, and controls are aligned with business goals and partner commitments
Drive strategic discussions with Search publishers to understand their marketplace commitments, identify gaps, and align on improvements that strengthen the ecosystem
Continuously analyze marketplace health metrics, including traffic quality, revenue performance, discrepancy trends, and partner‑specific signals
Investigate anomalies or discrepancies, synthesize insights, and recommend corrective actions to internal teams and external partners
Build frameworks, dashboards, and processes that improve visibility into marketplace performance and enable proactive issue detection
Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, product management, and business development to deliver high‑impact marketplace improvements
Drive alignment across teams by articulating problem statements, defining success metrics, and ensuring timely execution of deliverables
Manage program risks, dependencies, and communication plans to keep stakeholders informed and accountable
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
Proficient use of data analysis tools (e.g., Kusto, SQL, Python) and comfort working with large datasets