Principal Program Manager - ADS - 829408

Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 829408-105956
Division: Applications and Services Engineering

We are the Relevance and Revenue team, within Microsoft Advertising Business, that is chartered to deliver the most relevant sponsored content to consumers, through the medium of Microsoft Bing Search. To deliver on the promise of the charter, we are diligently working to establish the world's best organization with a core competency to solve multi discipline problems using science and algorithms; especially in the area of Sponsored Search (and online marketing). Today, we design, develop and operate a multi-billion dollar global paid search marketplace; with double digit annual growth rates.

Paid Search problem space encompasses some of the biggest & most comprehensive problems in Computer Science (Machine Learning, Data Mining, BI, Large Scale Distributed Computing, Geographical Scale, Service Deployment and Management); Mathematics (Optimizations, Probability Theory); Economics & Business (Auction Theory, Audience Intelligence, and Behavioral Targeting).

To address this large problem space, we are building a world class team that continually delivers innovation through collaborative execution. Therefore, we are looking for experienced Program Managers, who can plan, own and deliver on multiple investments concurrently. Come and be a part of one of Microsoft's key strategic growth initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Program Manager include the following:

- Drive mid to long term planning & product definition for a set of investments identified by Research, Business Development team, or v-team
- Identify, define, plan and execute (design and spec) a set of experiments to validate hypothesized problem statements & solutions
- Incorporate & validate customer requirements & feedback into product design
- Work with development, business leadership, & our partner teams to ensure that product meets functional, quality, performance, scalability, privacy, security, & usability goals

Qualifications include the following:

- 10+ years of experience with demonstrable success in designing & shipping large scale software products; especially within a Software-as-a-Service model
- Strong relationship building to develop partnerships across Microsoft divisions, Industry, and Customers
- Ideal candidate will hold a Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics or Economics or Engineering related discipline; and preferably have knowledge-of/experience-in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Auction Theory, Pay for Performance Business Models, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval Systems, Supply and Demand Management, Operational Optimization, Data Sciences, Online Marketing Systems combined with CRM and ERP systems
- Recent experience in the areas of Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payment Models, Mobile Commerce, or Online Advertising in verticals; will be of additional benefit for this role

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