Microsoft · 2 days ago
Senior Data Scientist
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is a leading company in the digital advertising industry, and they are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Market Sciences Team. This role involves turning massive-scale data into actionable insights to drive data-driven decisions, focusing on areas such as causal inference, measurement, and experimental design.
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Responsibilities
Measurement: Design metrics to measure and track Microsoft advertiser demand health and inform/guide sales and marketing execution. Quantify the impact and incrementality of various sales and marketing programs
Experimentation: Design and analyzing the results of online and offline experiments. Using quasi-experiments and counterfactuals to understand the causality in scenarios where AB testing is not feasible
Demand Generation: Prototyping algorithms for creating, managing, and optimizing demand generation activities through sales, marketing, and product to support our ad marketplace
Problem formulation: Work with key business stakeholders to understand the underlying business needs and formulate the needs into discrete, manageable problems with well-defined measurable objectives and outcomes
Model development: Develop new predictive and prescriptive models using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques with a goal of productionizing solutions
Influence: Influence stakeholders to make product/service improvements that yield customer/business value by effectively making compelling cases through storytelling, visualizations, and other influencing tools
Qualification
Required
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR equivalent experience
Experience in all phases of managing data science projects including problem definition, solution formulation, model building, productionizing and delivering measurable impact
Hands-on experience in design & problem-solving skills with programming languages, such as Python and R and SQL-like query languages
Experience in applying statistics, designing experimentation, causal inference and metrics
Company
Microsoft
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