Principal Data Scientist

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

11h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Bing organization is looking for a Principal Data Scientist. The team is pushing the boundaries regarding our understanding for how users engage with AI-powered search engines and then translates the insights into actionable metrics. These metrics then provide direction to the Bing team and help engineers make the right ship decisions for their thousands of online controlled experiments.

Nearly a billion users visit Bing.com worldwide monthly, and we have a large opportunity to grow further, especially with the introduction of AI-based features. At Bing, we celebrate our data driven culture: changes only ship when their impact is understood and positive. This role is a great opportunity to make solid, and even multiplicative impact on the org.

As a Principal Data Scientist in this team, you will have the chance to work on metrics and analytics shaping growth of the Bing product. You will have the opportunity to work not only with the Bing product team focused on growth but with many critical partner teams across Microsoft. You will drive impactful data-driven insights to understand impact, ROI, opportunities to support the Bing search experience that delights the user.
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Requirements

• Doctorate 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)
• Master'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)
• Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hands on analysis on large volumes of telemetry data using various algorithms and tools including your own.
• Drive data driven ideation for Bing product team for opportunities and ROI for growth initiatives.
• Drive impact analysis for features critical to agile course correction and business investments.
• Define and track key org level success metrics for impact and drive reliable process to track contribution from individual feature initiatives across the product lifecycle against set goals.
• Evangelize your data analysis techniques, visualizations across teams.
• Continuously improve measurement of the key metrics and update the metrics according to new instrumented signals.
• Develop tools to help analyze the movement of the metrics to help feature teams to understand why their changes impact the metrics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree