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Data Science28 days agoOn-site

Microsoft

Principal Data Scientist

data sciencestatisticsexperimentationmetricsPythonRMATLABC#JavaC++data analysismodelingprogrammaticadvertisingmachine learning

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Mountain View, United States; Redmond, United States

Full job description

Join Microsoft Advertising Data Science Team to manage marketplace metrics, build analytical and experimentation frameworks, and enable data-driven decisions. Responsibilities include defining metrics, experimental design, product iteration, cross-team cooperation, stakeholder engagement, independent decision-making, and strategic planning. Required qualifications include advanced degree in relevant fields with 3+ to 7+ years data science experience depending on degree level, proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, or C++, strong analytical and communication skills, and experience in statistics, experimentation, and collaboration. Role is full-time, on-site in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA. Salary ranges from $142,800 to $304,200 depending on location.

What you'll do

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

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data science experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Preferred: Doctorate AND 5+ years experience OR Master's AND 8+ years OR Bachelor's AND 12+ years
  • 5+ years experience in at least one programming language: Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, C++
  • Great organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
  • Fantastic problem solver
  • Interpersonal skills for cross-group and cross-culture collaboration
  • 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++statisticsexperimentationdata science

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensationAdditional benefits and pay information available at Microsoft careers site

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