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Principal Data & Analytics Scientist

Microsoft

$163,000 - $331,200
Sep 27, 2025
Mountain View, CA, US
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Microsoft is looking to solve complex data science and analytics problems across users, advertisers, and publishers on its Advertising platform

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in at least one of programming languages like Python/R/MATLAB/C-Sharp/Java/C++
  • 5+ years of experience with real world system building and data collection, including design, coding and evaluation
  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years data science experience
  • Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data science experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years data-science experience
  • Experience in organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
  • Ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before

Responsibilities

  • Product Insights: Deliver and interpret the results of analyses, validate approaches, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve products.
  • Measurement: Define, invent, and deliver metrics which accurately measure user and business value across various products and marketplace components.
  • Experimental Design & Implementation: Think critically about sampling and experimental design across User and Demand dimensions. Translate strategy into plans that are clear and measurable, with progress shared out to stakeholders.
  • Collaboration: Partner effectively with program management, engineers, and other areas of the business across our Consumer online business
  • Influence: engage with stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, and actionable insights and data-driven workflows that influence product and service improvements.
  • Make independent decisions for the team and handle difficult tradeoffs
  • Translate strategy into plans that are clear, actionable and measurable to drive impact.

Other

  • Doctorate or Master's or Bachelor's Degree in related field
  • 8+ years or 10+ years or 12+ years data science experience
  • Ability to communicate insights to senior leaders
  • Experience to communicate with different audiences to provide insights
  • Cross-group and cross-culture collaboration