# Analytical Lead

**Company**: Microsoft Advertising
**Location**: Chicago
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/analytical-lead-2/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4a950af4-048

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft Advertising are looking for an Analytical Lead who is driven by data and its potential to influence business strategies and produce tangible results.

## About the Role

As an Analytical Lead, you will generate insights and recommendations that directly benefit our clients, enhancing their business performance and opening up new investment avenues on our Microsoft Advertising platform. Your role involves synthesizing industry knowledge, digital marketing expertise, and advanced analytical methods to craft compelling data stories that sway decision-makers using visualizations and narrative techniques. You should possess solid analytical, problem-solving, and consulting abilities, along with a proactive, challenging mindset and excellent partnership management skills.

## Accountabilities

- Conduct in-depth market research across cinema and simulation sectors, identifying emerging trends, competitive threats, and partnership opportunities that directly inform the company's quarterly strategic planning sessions

- Determine appropriate analytical techniques to address business questions, execute analyses and interpret results with actionable recommendations, and partner to build on others' analyses and forecasting

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- 2+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience

**Technical skills:**

- 2+ years experience using tools such as PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, R, SQL for data manipulation and visualization on large datasets

**Personal attributes:**

- Dynamic and creative critical thinking skills, with an ability to think outside of the box

## Benefits

- Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week

## Skills

### Required
- data analysis
- data science
- business intelligence
- PowerBI
- Tableau
- DAX
- R
- SQL

### Nice to have
- data visualization
- narrative techniques
- partnership management