Principal Data Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 27, 2024 | |
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OverviewThe SharePoint Data Science team's charter is to foster a data-driven culture, ensuring that all key organization and product decisions are informed by data. Our team works closely with product management, engineering, marketing, user research, design and business leaders to identify opportunities for improving the customer experience and accelerate our business's growth in support of this mission. We analyze historical data to understand salient trends, deliver standardized views of business performance, develop models to predict performance, recommend actions to be taken, and run experiments to prove that desired outcomes are being achieved. This is a unique opportunity to bring your knowledge of enterprise software offerings, as well as your deep understanding of data science methods and best practices, to help Microsoft deliver the best experience possible for our customers and partners. You will be joining a group of people on the front lines of synthesizing vast customer purchase and engagement behavior data sets into targeted recommendations for addressing real-world business challenges at scale. We arelooking for a Principal Data Scientist to bring a fresh perspective andyour unique voice to our team. AboutOur Culture We are a modern product and services organization, one of the largest business & consumer services on the planet, and the second biggest workload in Office 365.Data scientists on this team will be part of the broader data science team, and specific product teams focused on tangible and immediate business impact. We have a tremendous responsibility to our customers to help transform their content needs with Microsoft 365.We use data toorganizeourbusiness priorities. We empower our industry-leading data science, design, and user research teams to own our product's user experience.We take a direct role in framing our business value directly to our customers and vibrant community of fans. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesWork cross functionally to translate business problems into ones that can be solved and informed by data analysis.Have curiosity and apply analytical skills to dive deep into data to find key insights that impact the business.Develop models of usage, user behavior & business behavior to make recommendations and influence the product road map.Work with other teams across Microsoft to develop key metrics to achieve business outcomes.Conduct AB testing. Design, execute and analyze experiments to prove product change attribution.Utilize tools like SQL, R, Python to execute analyses. | |