Business Applications is one of the four key growth areas for Microsoft and our cloud business over the coming years. As a foundational pillar of the company, the Business Applications Group is building the next generation of business applications and platforms that will help businesses large and small succeed in achieving their digital transformation agenda. The products we are responsible for include Dynamics 365, Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow), Mixed Reality for business and other SaaS applications and workloads. We are seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader for our Data Science function as part of our Insights and Analytics team. As a role covering 30+ products, this is a highly visible role that requires executive maturity, management experience leading a team of data scientists as well as technical depth and experience leveraging statistics, data analysis, data science and visualization to ultimately drive business insights that lead to action and successful
Applying statistical and machine learning techniques to problems like forecasting, text feedback analysis, customer/user segmentation/classification, improve effectiveness of customer support ticket routing Lead the efforts for understanding the data generated by experiments, and producing actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them Establish complex problems and the associated data and giving the answers in a concise form to assist the team in making key business decisions Present findings and recommendations to key decision makers at various management levels Drive innovation leveraging Data
Required: 5+ years of people management experience 10+ years of hands-on experience with data science and analytics in business context Preferred: Masters or PhD in Data Science, Mathematics, Operational research or related field Experience with product and service big data telemetry systems Significant experience in Data Science and Machine Learnings with a strong proven track record in delivering positive business impact Strong knowledge in applied statistics and mathematics Experience managing teams Significant experience of analytical programming languages such as R and/or Python. Enjoy discovering