Principal Data Scientist Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Job Description

We are inviting you to join the Microsoft Advertising Data Science Team. Microsoft Advertising platform is the single stop shop for all monetization needs for Publishers and Advertisers globally. Our team manages the marketplace, which includes monitoring business metrics, defining metrics, building analytical & experimentation frameworks, and enabling leadership to make data driven decisions. The team works across Engineering, Product and Business to address complex data science problems across users, advertisers, and publishers. We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist leader, creative modeling geeks who are willing to work in a dynamic environment to solve real life day to day problems, leveraging data science techniques. You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are curious and willing to challenge the status quo and come up with data driven solutions to ambiguous problems.

Job Responsibility

Measurement: Define, invent, and deliver metrics which accurately measure user and business value across various products and marketplace components
Experimental Design: Think critically about sampling and experimental design across User and Demand dimensions
Product Iteration: Interpret the results of analyses, validate approaches, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve
Cooperation: Partner effectively with program management, engineers, and other areas of the business across our Consumer online business
Influence: engage with stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, and actionable insights and data-science driven workflows that influence product and service improvements
Make independent decisions for the team and handle difficult tradeoffs
Translate strategy into plans that are clear and measurable, with progress shared out monthly to stakeholders

Requirements

Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ year(s) data-science experience
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data-science experience
OR equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in at least one of programming languages like Python/R/MATLAB/C#/Java/C++
Experience in applying statistics, designing experimentation and metrics particularly in Advertising platforms

Nice to have

Organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
Problem solver: ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before
Interpersonal skills: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration
Experience with real world system building and data collection, including design, coding and evaluation
Excellent communication to be able to communicate insights to senior leaders
Experience with driving large collaboration across multiple teams
Experience with communicating with different audiences to provide insights
Demonstrated experience in applying statistics, experimentation and metrics to generate clear actionable insights

Microsoft Corporation - All Job Offers