Senior Data Scientist

The Bing organization is looking for a Senior Data Scientist. The team is pushing the boundaries regarding our understanding for how users engage with AI-powered search engines and then translates the insights into actionable metrics. These metrics then provide direction to the Bing team and help engineers make the right ship decisions for their thousands of online controlled experiments.

Nearly a billion users visit Bing.com worldwide monthly, and we have a large opportunity to grow further, especially with the introduction of AI-based features. At Bing, we celebrate our data driven culture: changes only ship when their impact is understood and positive. This role is a great opportunity to make solid, and even multiplicative impact on the org.

As a Senior Data Scientist in this team, you will have the chance to work on metrics and analytics shaping growth of the Bing product. You will have the opportunity to work not only with the Bing product team focused on growth but with many critical partner teams across Microsoft. You will drive impactful data-driven insights to understand impact and develop forecast models inform risk and opportunities to the product and business as early as possible.

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.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Develop highly accurate forecast models powering insights for business and product risks and opportunities.
• Work closely with partners across the product, finance, ads to align on business goals and progress.
• Drive deep understanding and optics around top-level business metrics and levers for growth and risk.
• Drive impact analysis for features critical to agile course correction and business investments.
• Define and track key org level success metrics for impact and drive reliable process to track contribution from individual feature initiatives. across the product lifecycle against set goals.
• Evangelize your data analysis techniques, visualizations across teams.
• Continuously improve measurement of the key metrics and update the metrics according to new instrumented signals.
• Develop tools to help analyze the movement of the metrics to help feature teams to understand why their changes impact the metrics.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR equivalent experience.

• Experience building forecast models using Prophet, SARIMA, LSTM.
• Unique balance of technical, analytical, and program management skills to drive actions from data.
• Technical expertise in working with big data, modern data analysis techniques and tools with solid understanding of math/statistics fundamentals (e.g. A/B testing).
• Passion for data and experience in direct application in data driven business.
• Familiarity with search engines, online services and marketing campaigns.
• Knowledge on machine learning for data mining, clustering and predictive analysis.
• A willingness to learn, share, and improve.
• Self-motivated, agile and driven to think out-of-the-box.
• Ability to work independently, influence others, and solid communication and collaboration skills.

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Data Science IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.