Principal Data and Applied Scientist Manager Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Communications and Time Management team powers the email and collaboration products that hundreds of millions of users count on every day to connect, organize, and get things done. Through our rich history of bringing email and calendar together in Outlook we have learned the importance of building products that focus on simplicity, reliability, and creating delightful experiences so everyone can cut through the noise and focus on what matters most to them.

We are currently building the next generation of products and features that span our portfolio of our world-class communication applications - Outlook, our flagship email and calendaring brand and Yammer, our solution to help people connect across organizations.

Do you love data? Do you love collaborate with teams of customer focused engineers and product managers to unlock insights? We believe in putting our customers first and making sure that everything we do aligns with the jobs our customers hire us for. We focus on delivering improvements and functionality at a brisk pace while staying nimble in a changing world, identify the core signals that indicate success, along with the additional metrics that are leading indicators of business growth and success.

Do you like working at a place where you are encouraged to grow, learn, and make an impact? We care deeply about building an inclusive team culture where everyone's voice is heard because we believe the diversity of opinion helps us learn fast and build products for the world. We are also extremely data driven and use data and experimentation to deliver exceptional experiences for our global customers.

* Have a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in data-analysis, finance/business analytics related roles.
* Are able to break down complex business and technical problems into opportunities for analytical study.
* Have extensive knowledge and experience in data science including expertise in one or more of: finance analysis, business/customer intelligence, machine learning, big data/data mining, statistics, data modeling, information theory, or a similar field.
* Are inherently curious, energized by large challenges, and interested in making a significant impact on a globally scaled business.
* Demonstrate strong communications and story telling skills, and the ability to work across teams, executives, and subject matter experts to drive results.
* Are a tenacious problem solver that is comfortable with ambiguity.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

* Develop the tools to best drive insights across the breadth of the Outlook as a Service products through both aggregate and real time data streams.
* Drive a deep understanding of user behaviors across all products and services to empower product managers, designers, and marketers to better target our customers.
* Driving metrics and measurements development for the products
* Explore and build new tools to model, test, and drive innovation across our business and customer experiences.
* Champion the use of data analysis and data Science practices across all aspects of our product and service portfolio and across our business engagements.
* Help further drive our culture of learning through fostering exploration and discovery