AdTechTalent
Data Science7 days agoOn-site

Microsoft

Principal Data Scientist

data sciencestatisticsexperimental designmetricsPythonRMATLABC#JavaC++machine learninganalyticsdata-drivencollaboration

Key details

Salary

$143K – $275K

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 collaboration, stakeholder engagement, independent decision-making, and strategic planning. Required qualifications include advanced degrees in relevant fields with 3+ to 7+ years of data science experience depending on degree level, proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, or C++, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience in system building and data collection, and excellent communication skills. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA. Salary ranges from $142,800 to $274,800 annually in the U.S., higher in specific metro areas.

What you'll do

  • Define, invent, and deliver metrics to measure user and business value across products and marketplace components
  • Design experiments with critical thinking about sampling and experimental design across User and Demand dimensions
  • Interpret analysis results, validate approaches, monitor, analyze, and iterate to improve products
  • Partner effectively with program management, engineers, and other business areas
  • Engage stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights and data-science driven workflows
  • Make independent decisions and handle difficult tradeoffs
  • Translate strategy into clear, 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 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 with 5+ years experience OR Master's with 8+ years experience OR Bachelor's with 12+ years experience or equivalent
  • 5+ years experience in at least one programming language: Python, R, MATLAB, C#, Java, C++
  • Great organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
  • Strong 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 convey insights to senior leaders
  • Experience driving large collaborations across multiple teams
  • Experience communicating insights to different audiences
  • Demonstrated experience applying statistics, experimentation and metrics to generate actionable insights

Tech stack

PythonRMATLABC#JavaC++

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (details at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay)

Apply now

Ready to take the next step in your career? Click the button below to continue to the application process.

Continue to applicationBrowse more jobs

Similar jobs

More roles worth a look

Related opportunities based on specialty and working model so candidates can keep momentum.