Are you a Data Scientist with a passion for collaborating with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Data Scientists to drive product growth?

You will be working on growing products made in our Developer Division that are used by millions of developers worldwide. According to the 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are the leading IDEs used by developers, used by more than 30% and 70% respectively. Our Azure cloud platform is used by more than 30% of developers, with .NET as the most loved framework. We’re constantly striving to learn the needs of developers, how they work and what frustrates them, and how we can help them be more productive. Delighting and retaining developers who use Azure with our tools and services is our core mission. 

We’re looking for someone to join our team of Data Scientists and Technical Program Managers who are focused on driving growth for the Developer Division products. Your efforts will help the organization get more information and insights out of the data produced by our products and experiences. We expect that you’re comfortable talking with internal data platform users, describing how product teams should instrument telemetry data, anticipating user needs and project risks, maintaining compliance requirements, and developing project roadmaps.  

Here’s what you’ll learn and do to be successful in this role: 

• You’ll dive deep 
• You’ll identify and address pain points in users’ experiences using the Developer Division’s telemetry systems and tools by improving documentation, experiences, and capabilities  
• You’ll build productive and collaborative relationships with Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists 
• You’ll test out the tools and products Microsoft is building specifically for data scientists to provide feedback for our product and engineering teams
• You’ll be an active learner and problem-solver, eager to pick up new skills and go through experiences firsthand to better understand the value that the data platform and tools should provide to internal teams

This position is 100% Remote, but will have the option to be onsite if desired.

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Responsibilities

• Radically simplify self-service usage of our common data sources. Help the organization get more value from our data platform.  
• Define the long-term roadmap for evolving telemetry systems
• Prioritize and support new telemetry onboarding requests
• Work with engineering teams and privacy managers to reduce COGs and compliance risk and improve data hygiene
• Define tools and processes to ensure that data usage is compliant with privacy and security requirements, helping Microsoft maintain customer trust

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field 
• 2+ years experience doing data analysis, statistics, and modeling in Python and/or R 

 
Preferred Qualifications: 

• A strong value for diversity and inclusivity in the workplace 
• 2+ years doing product analytics for business to consumer (B2C) or business to business (B2B) software solutions or web telemetry products. 
• 1+ years helping with controlled experimentation – both design of experiments and outcome analysis 
• Prior experience using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Azure in development and production scenarios 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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