Saaya Yasuda Molina

About Saaya Yasuda Molina

Field Engineering and Product leader at Microsoft with 15 years of experience building and scaling global teams for high‑throughput, low‑latency platforms and partner integrations. Currently leading marketplace and publisher product and engineering initiatives in Ads Engineering as a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft AI.Previously led a ~25‑person global organization across 3 continents, owning 200+ real‑time (<100 ms) integrations representing $1.1B+ in annual revenue, including tier‑1 partners at high QPS. I’ve worked hands‑on with customers’ engineering teams on API and real‑time system design and production deployment, and built internal tooling and automation to improve observability, monitoring, and operational efficiency.I have a track record of growing engineers into managers, building teams 0→1 as well as scaling <10→~25, driving post‑sales technical adoption, and translating customer needs into product roadmaps. My academic foundation is in computer science and statistics (data science) at Columbia, complemented by earlier training in arts and marketing communications.

Experience

1. Principal Pm Manager

   Microsoft AI

   Sep 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   2025 – PresentLeading MSN/Copilot non-search ads monetization within Marketplace Management in Ads Engineering, through cross-functional experimentations across formats, placements, and bidding to optimize revenue and marketplace efficiency.2023 – 2025- Led a product team of seasoned technical experts building first-party publisher ads products within the Monetize Product org in Ads Engineering- Drove a critical data migration underpinning all first-party ads monetization; coordinated across platform/data engineering, product, finance, and marketplace teams to align dependencies and execute cutover with zero revenue disruption.

Education

• Columbia University

  Computer Science & Statistics (Data Science)

• Fashion Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Advertising & Marketing Communications (Minor in Economics, Spanish, Latin American Studies)

• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

  Certificate, Spanish Language and Culture - Upper Intermediate (B2) Level

• General Assembly

  Certificate, Data Science

Skills

• Appnexus
• Conversion Optimization
• Integration
• Oracle Sql
• Software Development
• Python
• Javascript
• Event Planning
• Display Advertising
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Html
• Mobile Applications
• Spanish
• Problem Solving
• Public Relations
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Oracle Reports
• Business Intelligence
• Ad Serving
• Vb.net
• Ibm Mainframe
• Xml
• Teradata
• Debugging
• Excel
• Css
• Advertising
• C#
• Advertising Operations
• Ad Exchanges
• Indesign
• Business Objects
• Web Content Management
• Online Advertising
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Blogging
• Sql
• Web Services
• Google Analytics