Senior UX Data Scientist

We are a team of product designers, UX researchers, data scientists, content designers, and technical writers. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we design product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.

Securityrepresentsthe most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them withend to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

As a Senior UX Data Scientist, you will use your data insight skills to influence impactful UX projects and long-term strategic explorations. Your role will be pivotal invalidatingour belief that good UX equates to good business.

You will dive into telemetry/instrumentation datasets to uncover patterns of user behavior and connect those to gaps in the customer experience and opportunities for business impact. We are looking for a visionary who can bring fresh ideas to the table,expandthe existingdata-drivenapproachto steer product UX strategy, andexhibitstrong leadership, research, storytelling, and organizational skills.Essential to the role is business acumen and the capacity to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Work closely withdata scientists,data analysts, and UX Researchersto define user-level behavioral telemetry in our product portfolio.

• Develop data collection and statistical analysis strategies, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.

• Develop an understanding of technical and non-technical users of Microsoft Security products to ensure we are designing solutions that meet their expectations.

• Expand the UX measurement framework tomeasure the effectiveness of UX improvements and track user engagement.

• Use data analytic and data scientific approaches to measure and understand user behavior and UX challenges.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to define researchobjectivesand incorporate insights into the product development process.

• Utilize analytic tools and techniques to analyzevery largedata sets, derive meaningful insights, and uncover patterns and trends related to user behavior.

• Present research findings, insights, and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner, both verbally and through visual presentations.

• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX research and data analysis and apply them to enhance our research methodologies and techniques.

Required/minimum qualifications:

• Expertise in algorithms, machine learning, and deep learning.
• Proficiency in data mining, big data technologies, and experimentation methods (e.g., A/B testing).
• Ability to influence and tell compelling data stories.
• Experience working in Agile development environments is preferred.
• Experience building dashboards using tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or similar.