Technical Program Manager – MSA Gaming, Mid Level

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Job Summary:

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. They are seeking a Technical Program Manager focused on the Gaming business within Microsoft Advertising, responsible for driving business planning and strategic initiatives to grow market share in the digital advertising industry.

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for their assigned workstream, consolidating milestones and dependencies across projects.

• Identify and manage interdependence across workstreams to avoid bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery.

• Lead governance rhythms, enforcement, and execution excellence including regular updates to the Program Manager and stakeholders, maintaining clarity on status and risks.

• Develops strategic plans to drive and transform the business across supply, demand, pricing and platforms and influences prioritization of initiatives within these areas.

• Leads workstreams across supply and demand strategy, opportunity sizing, demand profiling, and business requirements documentation.

• Works with cross-functional teams to ensure business and demand plans are comprehensive and rationalized across all planning dimensions from channels to touchpoints.

• Structures ambiguous situations into a defined plan, including identification of root causes, testing of hypothesis, proposal, and implementation of proposal for solutioning.

• Evaluates current state business operations to identify issues limiting growth and develops solutions to remove barriers for scale.

• Leverages insights across voice of customer, market research, and stakeholder input to develop recommendations and provide thought leadership around potential growth opportunities.

• Communicates and advocates plans to business leaders and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations).

• Builds end-to-end storylines, leveraging data to demonstrate measurable outcomes of work.

• Delivers recommendations and implications to stakeholders to facilitate discussions and decision making.

• Partners across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Sales to ensure alignment.

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, strategy, business planning, consulting, marketing, finance, product management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

• 2 years of experience leading cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 4 years of experience in analytical problem-solving skills with ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to drive data-driven decisions.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, strategy, business planning, consulting, marketing, finance, product 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).

• 8 years advertising experience with ad tech, product or product marketing experience

• Familiarity with the digital advertising environment and a clear understanding of the media planning and buying and selling processes

• A proven track record of working across diverse stakeholders to define and execute strategic initiatives with passion, precision, and excellence.

• Ability to navigate, build trust, and influence through hands-on engagement with leadership across business and engineering teams

• Solid business judgement and ability to make decisions leveraging strategic thinking complemented with a bias for action and operational excellence.

• Ability to communicate at an executive level through visual, written, and verbal communication within a global context, technical and non-technical

• Comfort with work independently and effectively as part of a broad fast-moving team, and drive successful outcomes with virtual teams, in an oftentimes ambiguous environment.

Company:

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Founded in 1975, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, team size 10001 employees, currently Public Company. Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.