Principal, Data Science & Analytics

Overview

Microsoft AI (MAI) builds an integrated consumer AI ecosystem across search, browsing, and content, focused on delivering trustworthy, scalable experiences with durable user and business value. The MAI Ecosystem Data Science Team owns MAI wide metrics, shared measurement systems, and experimentation frameworks to enable consistent, high confidence decisions and optimize MAI level outcomes. 

We are seeking a Principal, Data Science & Analytics for ecosystem data science to own cross product measurement strategy, partner across product and business teams, and uphold a high bar for metric quality, statistical rigor, and data driven leadership.

We are looking for high-energy Data Scientist, creative modeling geeks who are willing to work in a dynamic environment to solve real life day to day problems, leveraging data science techniques. You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are curious and willing to challenge the status quo and come up with data driven solutions to ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Data Science and Analytics in the team, your major responsibilities include: 

• Leadership: Mentor data scientists and align work with MAI ecosystem goals, driving technical excellence, innovation, and cross-team collaboration.
• Data Strategy & Execution: Develop ecosystem data strategies for marketplace and system performance, including standardized data collection, analysis, reporting, and interpretation; validate analytical approaches and results.
• Advanced Analytics & Measurement: Apply machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining, and experimentation to large datasets; define and deliver metrics that accurately measure user and business value across products and marketplace components.
• Experimental Design & Implementation: Design and execute experiments across user and demand dimensions; translate strategy into clear, actionable, and measurable plans, sharing progress and results with stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with product, program management, engineering, and business teams to integrate data science solutions into shared platforms and marketplace operations.
• Performance Optimization: Identify cross-team opportunities for product and process improvement; implement data-driven solutions to improve efficiency, reliability, and user experience.
• Influence & Decision-Making: Engage stakeholders with clear, compelling, and actionable insights; make independent decisions for the team and handle complex tradeoffs to drive product and service improvements.
• Technical & Operational Leadership: Develop and standardize processes for data acquisition, quality, and operationalizing ML models; provide expert review of analysis and modeling; lead adoption of new tools and technologies to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance.
• Standards & Trusted Advisory: Establish and uphold standards, policies, and best practices for high-quality, efficient, and extensible code; influence business, customer, and solution strategy with a solid customer focus; act as a trusted advisor across the ecosystem.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 8 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 10 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 12 years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
• OR equivalent experience.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in at least one of programming languages like Python/R/MATLAB/C#/Java/C
• Great organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition 
• Fantastic problem solver: ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before 
• Interpersonal skills: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration. 
• Experience with real world system building and data collection, including design, coding and evaluation  
• Excellent communication to be able to communicate insights to senior leaders.
• Experience with driving large collaboration across multiple teams. 
• Experience with communicating with different audiences to provide insights
• Demonstrated experience in applying statistics, experimentation and metrics to generate clear actionable insights.
  
  

#MicrosoftAI

Data Science IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.