Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Science

Overview

Every day at Microsoft, we bring an insatiable curiosity to our work, continually challenging ourselves to rethink what is possible and to push beyond existing boundaries. We build on past innovations to create what comes next—shaping the future and empowering billions of people around the world.

Online advertising is one of the fastest‑growing sectors of the internet economy today. Search engines, web publishers, major advertising networks, and ad exchanges serve billions of ad impressions daily, generating terabytes of user interaction data in the process. This rapid expansion has created significant opportunities, alongside complex technical challenges that require intelligent, scalable solutions. The field of computational advertising has emerged as a multidisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and microeconomics to address the demanding problems inherent in modern online advertising.

 We are a team that focuses on keeping the Microsoft Advertising ecosystem safe for users and compliant with policies.

You should be independent, curious, and have an attitude of can learn and can get it done. You need to be open (and potentially familiar) to service and business operations responsibilities, and able to perform data analysis at different scales, be open to / interested in quick coding to get analysis done or automate fixed processes. Given open ended business or analysis or introductory data science problems, you should be able to think structurally and form hypothesis / strategies in a reasonable manner. Having the ability to undertake precise communication with different types of audiences is a plus. The team is based out of Bangalore, but you may work from different locations in India, as per current flexible work policy of Microsoft.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

1. Analyze revenue and quality impact of change in models or policies used to evaluate Ads.
2. Perform exploratory analyses to react to emergent threats to suggest approaches to deal with them
3. Strong communication skills and ability to modify presentation as per audience.
4. Productionize analyses into dashboards for monitoring and alerting
5. Ability to independently run analyses and investigations.

 

Automation and Engineering:

Inclination to explore mechanisms to automate analysis steps, undertake engineering orchestration, which may require ability to do quick coding and or learning aspects of engineering infrastructure, as also exploring Machine Learning Solutions / Approaches

Qualifications

Qualification

• 6+ years of relevant experience is expected but for exceptional people experience is not a bar.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM or Business-related field with strong emphasis on data analytics; again we are open to being flexible for exceptional people.
• Knowledge of SQL or something similar, is important.
• Knowledge of Python and / or R in general coding as well as in data analysis has high weightage.
• Knowledge of basic and / or advanced statistical methods / knowledge of machine learning disciplines is a plus.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Technical competence & strong analytical skills
• Having worked in a web search related company is a plus.

 

 

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. 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.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Experience Level

Senior Level