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Principal Product Manager, Gaming Monetization

Microsoft· Product Management
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Microsoft is building monetization experiences for gaming across mobile, console, and PC, focusing on premium, player-first monetization while protecting player trust. The role leads monetization strategy across XBOX and ABK titles and surfaces, partnering with engineering, data science, and cross-functional teams to improve advertiser outcomes, surface value, and player trust.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the product strategy for gaming monetization across XBOX and Activision Blizzard King, translating business opportunities into clear player and advertiser problems, product bets, success metrics, and execution plans.
  • Lead product discovery across players, advertisers, studios, sales teams, and engineering partners to identify high-value monetization opportunities across mobile, console, and PC gaming, and sharpen the why now for each investment.
  • Develop crisp product requirements, roadmap priorities, launch plans, and tradeoff recommendations that balance advertiser demand, player experience quality, marketplace economics, privacy, policy, and technical feasibility.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, and design to ship scalable monetization products and measurement capabilities that improve yield, quality, relevance, and advertiser confidence across gaming surfaces.
  • Use data, experimentation, player and customer feedback, and marketplace signals to evaluate product performance, diagnose issues, and make prioritization decisions.
  • Help evolve gaming monetization from fragmented, surface-by-surface opportunities into a unified, premium, measurable, and durable product portfolio that scales across titles and platforms.
  • Model Microsoft culture by bringing curiosity, player and customer obsession, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, and high accountability to cross-functional product work.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development - OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Product strategyDiscovery and researchRequirements and roadmapMeasurement and data analysis

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation information available on Microsoft Careers site.
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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