About the Role
Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead execution across the Advertising Billing Platform. This role involves managing the end-to-end billing lifecycle, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and scalability across global markets and advertiser segments. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Finance, Tax, and Operations teams to deliver critical systems impacting revenue, customer trust, and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Drive Billing Platform execution by creating and translating PRDs into clear plans, managing dependencies, and delivering across billing, invoicing, payments, and financial integrations.
- Own end-to-end billing delivery, ensuring reliability across pricing, billing, invoicing, payments, and reconciliation, including complex scenarios.
- Ensure global compliance and scale by partnering with Finance, Tax, and Legal to deliver compliant, localized billing systems and support new markets and business models.
- Manage cross-system dependencies by coordinating across Ads platform, payments systems, and finance integrations to unblock delivery and align timelines.
- Lead program execution and communication, driving planning, risk management, and executive-level reporting with clear ownership and predictable delivery.
- Measure business impact by tracking revenue, billing accuracy, payment success, and support reduction, using data to guide prioritization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of technical program or project management experience delivering large-scale systems.
- Experience in billing, payments, fintech, or financial systems (invoicing, tax, reconciliation).
- Experience working closely with Engineering and Product in complex distributed systems including an understanding of system architecture.
- Experience driving execution across multiple teams and system dependencies.
- Experience in risk management, planning, and end-to-end release delivery.
- Experience communicating effectively at all levels, including executive audiences.
- Background in advertising or marketplace platforms.
- Familiarity with financial integrations (SAP, tax engines, invoicing systems).
- Familiarity with payment systems and risk/fraud workflows.
- Familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, and service health concepts.
- Experience driving globally compliant systems across multiple markets.
Skills
- Billing
- Payments
- Fintech
- Financial systems
- Invoicing
- Tax
- Reconciliation
- System architecture
- Risk management
- Planning
- Release delivery
- Communication
- Advertising platforms
- Marketplace platforms
- Financial integrations
- SAP
- Tax engines
- Payment systems
- Risk workflows
- Fraud workflows
- APIs
- Data pipelines
- Service health concepts
Location
- U.S.
- San Francisco Bay area
- New York City metropolitan area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- IC5
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S.)
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft Advertising is a rapidly growing business powering global advertisers across search, display, and AI-driven experiences.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
