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Microsoft · 6 hours ago

Senior Director Digital Platforms and Data

positionUnited States, New York, New York
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityDirector/Executive
money$163K/yr - $296K/yr
date8+ years exp

Microsoft is building a centralized Digital Platform & Data team to ensure consistent, privacy-safe instrumentation across digital experiences. The Senior Director, Digital Platforms & Data role is a product and engineering leadership position focused on end-to-end instrumentation enablement and driving implementation through engineering teams and delivery partners.

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Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end signal collection architecture across our digital platforms primarily Web and App including data flows, integration points, and scalable solution designs that work across modern web stacks (front end + back end)
Define, standardize and govern implementation patterns for instrumentation, including tag managers, pixels, SDK event collection, and server-side patterns (where applicable), ensuring consistency, performance, and reliability across experiences
Lead taxonomy and data layer alignment by establishing canonical event standards, naming conventions, required parameters, and versioning-ensuring signals are reusable across measurement, activation, and experimentation
Drive platform governance and engineering rigor through reference architectures, design reviews, release readiness criteria, and enforcement of standards (including exception handling) so teams ship instrumentation that is compliant and durable
Set the product/engineering roadmap for the digital signals platform, prioritizing foundational capabilities, technical debt reduction, and scaling to new surfaces while balancing speed, quality, and enterprise constraints
Partner deeply with engineering teams, CMS/platform owners, and analytics stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and executable plans; act as a technical escalation point for complex integration and instrumentation decisions
Lead execution through a blended team model (FTE + vendor partners), ensuring delivery quality, clear ownership, and measurable outcomes across high-volume instrumentation requests
Embody our culture and values

Qualification

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonDigital platformsSolution architectureInstrumentation engineeringData layer disciplinePrivacy-by-designPeople managementOrg leadership

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience

Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
6+ years people management experience
10+ years building/operating modern digital platforms (web/app): SPA/MPA/headless, API-driven experiences, auth/session, caching/CDNs, performance
8+ years solution architecture leadership: create/review architecture diagrams, define integration patterns/standards, run design reviews with engineering
8+ years instrumentation engineering: tag management, event-based tracking, pixels, web/app SDK collection; strong debugging/validation and release gating
7+ years data layer + schema discipline: event taxonomy, naming conventions, versioning, data contracts, quality monitoring
6+ years privacy-by-design implementation: consent-aware collection, vendor firing controls, data minimization, compliant partner integrations
6+ years org + delivery leadership: set platform roadmap/operating model, influence cross-functionally (Eng/Product/Analytics/Privacy), lead blended teams (FTE+vendors) with measurable outcomes

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
dateFounded in 1975
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Redmond, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1M
Key Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
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