Technical Program Manager

At Microsoft Advertising, we're creating an environment where collaboration, creativity, and passion thrive, providing professionals with a platform to make a real impact and build a fulfilling career.  We are the economic engine that powers the buying and selling of advertising across our  wide-range of consumer and advertising solutions, such as Bing Search and its affiliate network, consumer offerings like MSN, Outlook, Xbox and Windows, and our retail media and programmatic advertising platforms. We're driving innovation in the digital advertising industry through new technologies like generative AI and by seamlessly integrating a global premium marketplace into an expanding portfolio of solutions.     The Revenue Management team within Microsoft Advertising helps power the monetization engine for Microsoft’s and third-party publishers’ online search, display and retail media platforms.  We have a broad responsibility across business planning, forecasting, supply & demand analytics, performance management including delivering operational insights, and monetization efforts all of which are critical to ensuring the long-term health of our advertising platform. We work with groups across engineering and sales on driving growth initiatives and monetization improvements to our platform to help better enable our publishers and advertisers. The team is responsible for developing advanced techniques to turn data into insights; and to drive actions based on those insights end to end. The work environment empowers you to have a real impact on Microsoft’s business, our advertiser & publisher partners, and millions of end users.  We are currently seeking a Technical Program Manager who will join the business planning and forecasting team, focusing on forecasting our Display, Native and Video (DNV) business. This individual will partner closely with teams in strategy, business planning, product management, data science, sales, finance, and marketing to synthesize inputs and incorporate them along with marketplace signals into short/long term revenue models.This individual will be responsible for revenue forecasting, understanding and socializing drivers of performance, projecting current performance against targets, and influencing monetization and platform optimization decisions.  In this role you will dive into heavy amounts of data and gain an understanding of the levers that drive performance. You will have a keen intellect for generating data driven answers to complex business challenges in a rapid pace environment. Equally important is your ability to communicate across a varied range of partners. Success in this role will require demonstrated analytical skills, holistic domain knowledge of display buying and selling, data literacy, executive level communication, business acumen, adaptability, curiosity, and attention to detail.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.Responsibilities

Owning revenue models thatcontemplate the current state of the business, industry/economic trends, seasonality, and future product/strategic initiatives across multiple tech platform solutions.

Influencing financial business targets in the Display, Native and Video (DNV) space and developingfiner grain operational targets to steer daily marketplace monitoring and management.

Development of Rhythm of Business (ROB) reporting to capture business drivers and variance of outcomes vs forecast targets.

Be a Strategic Advisor in the Display, Native and Video (DNV) space: Provide thought leadership, advice, influence and insight to partners across other teams. 

Develop and lead executive level presentations to drive alignment on performance drivers and financial targets

Lead project work streams with limited oversight 

Others

Embody ourCulture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

QualificationsRequired/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

3+ years of experience working in the display advertising industry with deep domain knowledge of ad networks, programmatic buying, ad formats and audience targeting.

3+ years experience and proficiency in working with large data sets using (but not limited to) MS Excel, PowerBi and SQL

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

OR equivalent experience.

5+ years of experience working in the display advertising industry in an analytical capacity with deep domain knowledge of ad networks, programmatic buying, ad formats and audience targeting.

4+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

Experience with large scale revenue forecasting and financial target setting($500M+)

Proficiency with data bricks, R/Python with the keen ability to spot outliers in data, the persistence to find what the cause is and drive to understand the unknown. 

Technical familiarity with ad exchanges and real-time bidding

Excellent story-teller with the ability to explain complex data and analysis with simplicity and clarity. The ability to influence.

interdisciplinary team environment 

Hands-on approach to data modeling with a focus on accuracy and quality. 

Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-payMicrosoft will accept applications for the role until April 18, 2024.#MicrosoftAdvertisingMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .