# Principal Data Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/principal-data-scientist-2/
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## Description

## Summary

Microsoft are looking for a talented Principal Data Scientist at their Redmond office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising the tech industry. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the cloud and AI markets.

## About the Role

We are inviting you to join the Microsoft Advertising Data Science Team. Microsoft Advertising platform is the single stop shop for all monetization needs for Publishers and Advertisers globally. Our team manages the marketplace, which includes monitoring business metrics, defining metrics, building analytical & experimentation frameworks, and enabling leadership to make data driven decisions. The team works across Engineering, Product and Business to address complex data science problems across users, advertisers, and publishers. We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist leader, 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.

## 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

- Experimental Design: Think critically about sampling and experimental design across User and Demand dimensions

- Interpret the results of analyses, validate approaches, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve

- Influence: engage with stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, and actionable insights and data-science driven workflows that influence product and service improvements

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

**Technical skills:**

- Experience in applying statistics, designing experimentation and metrics particularly in Advertising platforms

**Personal attributes:**

- Organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition

- Problem solver: ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before

- Interpersonal skills: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration

## Benefits

- Data Science IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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

## Skills

### Required
- data science
- statistics
- experimentation
- metrics
- advertising platforms

### Nice to have
- organizational skills
- analytical skills
- problem solving
- interpersonal skills