Senior Data Scientist

Microsoft

Microsoft Advertising is at the forefront of digital advertising, driving innovation across platforms, including Bing and Xbox. The Market Sciences Team seeks innovative individuals with expertise in areas like Machine Learning and Econometrics to craft insights from extensive data collections. This role is pivotal in supporting evidence-based decisions that benefit Microsoft's advertising partners and their large user base.

In this role you can expect to have the responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand and define business needs as measurable objectives.
• Plan and implement experiments by setting success metrics, using appropriate methods, and delivering statistical results.
• Acquire and process necessary data for modeling purposes.
• Create new predictive models using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to improve solutions.
• Assess and refine team models, ensuring scalability and identifying new evaluation methods.
• Influence product and service improvements by presenting persuasive narratives and visualizations.
• Maintain expertise in industry trends and technologies to apply innovative data science methods.

This role comes with the following benefits:

• Eligibility for additional benefits and compensation.

This role requires you to have:

• Doctorate in a related field with 1+ years data-science experience, or equivalent alternative educational experience.
• 2+ years in managing all phases of data science projects.
• 2+ years of experience in statistical analysis and machine learning.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL.

You would benefit from having:

• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment.
• Experience in online advertising.

Microsoft is committed to equal opportunity employment, offering consideration without regard to personal characteristics protected by law. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.