microsoft is innovating rapidly to grow its market share by providing the advertising industry with a worldclass online advertising platform and service the microsoft bing ads marketplace serving group is one of the most strategic and growing teams in the company we are the paid search monetization branch within microsoft advertising business our goal is to land airs revenuepersearch goals while maintaining a healthy marketplace balancing revenue and relevance today we design develop and operate a multibilliondollar global paid search marketplace that has a double digit annual growth rate relevance measurement pm team is part of the bing ads marketplace serving pm group we are chartered to deliver the most relevant sponsored content to consumers through the medium of microsoft bing search network we measure ads quality though various metrics such as defect rate to ensure the delivery of the most relevant ad products with the best user experiences we are looking for a highly motivated and deeply skilled data scientist to help us define and manage ads relevance measurement analytical framework and implement the models established closely partner with our global relevance community in bing ads top candidates have a demonstrable record of using data to improve the world around them we hire people with a desire to build great productsservices and have great business impact using statistical analysis machine learning experiments data mining data visualization and more we welcome applications from diverse multidisciplinary backgrounds with analytical skills engineering abilities communication skills business interests relentless curiosity and a desire to improve the experiences of the vast customer base responsibilities key responsibilities analyze large sets of human judgment and web search log data to discover relevance insights enrich understanding of relevance drivers for paid search ads and share the results out with the broader team through forums and discussions innovate and improve relevance measurement user experience metrics and define negotiate operating point targets collaborate socialized and drive cross team initiatives to form relevance goals in all levels such as product platform and organization qualifications qualifications possess a strong ability to get projects delivered which have complicated cross group dependencies this includes managing partner groups and negotiating for winwin results demonstrate strong analytical strategic business and technology thinking skills as well as the ability to spell out how to execute on conclusions drawn from that thinking understanding technology at an architectural level will be the key to success proactive selfmotivated driven and results oriented with the proven ability to work independently and research innovative solutions to job responsibilities that includes translating disparate data points into a actionable solution passionate about delivering great products and user experiences in high scale services and achieving engineering excellence demonstrated unwavering persistence commitment and passion to the business customers and technology experience required demonstrated working knowledge on statistical and machine learning models such as anomaly detection predictive analysis text analysis exploratory data analysis and other areas of data science proficiency using tools like sql python r or other relevance data science toolsenvironments knowledge