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Data Science95 days agoOn-site

Microsoft

Principal Data Scientist

data scienceadvertisingexperimentationmetricspythonrmatlabc#javac++statistical analysisproduct analyticsmachine learning

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

10+

Location

Mountain View, California, United States; Redmond, Washington, United States

Full job description

Microsoft Advertising Data Science Team seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead data science initiatives addressing complex problems in advertising marketplace. Responsibilities include defining metrics, experimental design, product iteration, cross-team collaboration, stakeholder engagement, independent decision-making, and strategic planning. Required qualifications: Doctorate with 5+ years or Master's with 7+ years or Bachelor's with 10+ years in relevant fields; 5+ years programming experience in Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, or C++; experience in statistics, experimentation, and metrics in advertising platforms. Preferred skills include organizational, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and system building. Salary range varies by location. Position is full-time, on-site in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA.

What you'll do

  • Define, invent, and deliver metrics to measure user and business value across products and marketplace components
  • Think critically about sampling and experimental design across User and Demand dimensions
  • Interpret analysis results, validate approaches, monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve products
  • Partner effectively with program management, engineers, and other business areas
  • Engage with stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, and actionable insights and data-science driven workflows
  • Make independent decisions for the team and handle difficult tradeoffs
  • Translate strategy into clear and measurable plans with monthly progress updates to stakeholders

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
  • OR Master's Degree in related field AND 7+ years data-science experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 10+ years data-science experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 5+ years experience in at least one programming language like Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, or C++
  • Experience in applying statistics, designing experimentation and metrics particularly in Advertising platforms
  • Organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
  • Problem solving skills for novel problems
  • Cross-group and cross-culture collaboration skills
  • Experience with real world system building and data collection, including design, coding and evaluation
  • Excellent communication skills to communicate insights to senior leaders
  • Experience driving large collaboration across multiple teams
  • Experience communicating with different audiences to provide insights
  • Demonstrated experience applying statistics, experimentation and metrics to generate actionable insights

Tech stack

PythonRMATLABC#JavaC++statisticsexperimentationmetrics

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensationLink to additional benefits and pay information: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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