**Microsoft Start** is a personalized feed for short breaks that gives consumers a moment of wow. It is the most convenient and trusted one-stop shop on Windows PC to catch up with their interests, be entertained, and to discover & learn something new. The
• *News & Feeds** team within Microsoft Start, is looking for a
• *Principal Data Science Manager** to influence its product roadmap through data driven insights. Through telemetry, data, and consumer insights you’ll work to understand key user behaviors, funnels and focus on areas where we can improve their experience and journey. Our primary strategy is to meet users where they are and integrate content in the right context leveraging many Microsoft products. Personalization is a key tenet for our product and data/user insights play a foundation role.
We are consumer focused, data-driven, experimental, and adaptive. We have embarked on a mission to build a best-in-class personalized feeds recommendation product to delight a billion Windows users. With eyes on the future, we are bringing technology, content, and design together to create a delightful experience for our users. If this sounds exciting to you, we'd love to hear from you.
• *Responsibilities**:
- Work closely with the product teams to understand business problems, collect, organize, and analyze data from multiple environmental sources, telemetry systems, organize them so that they can be consumed
- Lead the team to evangelize strategic improvements across organizational boundaries
- Manage and grow data science talent on the team
- Provide comprehensive analysis of the current state of the product, identify best data sets, Data Science methodologies, algorithms, tools and infra needed to generate models to support the planned ML-based investments
- Define appropriate metrics to measure model effectiveness, aligning with business goals
- Integrate models into products, meeting product scaling and quality requirements
• *Qualifications**:
• *Required Qualifications**:
- 5+ years of software design and programming experience with languages like C/C++/C#/Java/Python
- 2+ years of experience directly managing people
- Demonstrated ability to positively contribute to organizational culture
- Demonstrated ability to influence and drive work across organizational boundaries
- Demonstrated background in Data Science and Analytics, hypothesis driven, with a passion for data and a bias for action.
- Experienced in framing and participating in data-driven business decisions, including measuring, and evaluating outcomes.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to leadership and deliver results.
- Comfortable with manipulating and analyzing complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
• *Preferred Qualifications**:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- Prior working experience with search, personalization, or content based, AI/ML driven products is a plus.
• *Cultural Attributes**
- Growth mindset with a desire to learn, an interest in embracing challenges, persistence in the face of setbacks, sees failure as essential to mastery, learns from criticism and finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
- Active participation in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard.
- Ability to articulate ideas to diverse audiences with varying responsibilities and concerns.
- Ability to synthesize information from various sources and summarize it for others.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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