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Advertisers, agencies, partners, developers, and increasingly AI agents need programmatic ways to create, understand, optimize, and manage advertising campaigns. We’re the team behind the infrastructure that powers the Microsoft Advertising buying experience, and we’re looking for a PM who wants to help define it. You’ll take ownership of our API and MCP roadmap, work at the intersection of advertising, developer platforms, and AI agents, with the opportunity to shape both the product and the team.\nIn this role, you will help design the interface between Microsoft Advertising and the next generation of software. You will own the product strategy and roadmap for our MCP and API experiences, working across engineering, product, design, partner teams, and customers to make Microsoft Advertising easier to build on and easier for agents to use.\nMicrosoft’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.\nAI Experiences employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.\nResponsibilities\nProduct Leadership: Develop and communicate the strategy and roadmap for Microsoft Ads MCP and API. \nExecution: Build MCP into a reliable interface through which AI agents can understand and manage advertising campaigns.\nEvangelism: Lead go-to-market efforts with marketing and sales, ensuring product launches drive adoption, improve creative coverage, and deliver measurable advertiser impact.\nMetrics: Define and own the success measures for MCP and API end-to-end.\nIndustry Leadership: Establish Microsoft Ads as a leader in developer and agentic tooling. \nQualifications\nRequired qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years' experience in product/service/program managementOR equivalent experience. \n\nPreferred qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years' experience in product/service/program management OR equivalent experience.\n\nWorking knowledge of ads ecosystem, particularly the buy-side, including API, MCP, campaign management, or agentic capabilities.\nExperience with AI agents, large language models, MCP, or related developer technologies.\nUnderstanding of API contracts, authentication, schemas, versioning, reliability, and developer workflows.\nDemonstrated technical proficiency working directly with APIs.\n\nExperience using written communication to engage stakeholders and customers.\n\nProduct Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. 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