Make tomorrow better. That is the essence of roles within our Microsoft Advertising Team. Every day, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the table, challenging ourselves to reimagine what is and what can be. We build on what’s come before to create what’s next. We drive machine intelligence. We help shape the future. We empower billions of people around the globe.

　　An opportunity to get your hands dirty with data across our Microsoft Ads marketplace ecosystem, for a curious, technical, agile, and driven individual who enjoys solving puzzles.  Our team monitors Microsoft Ads performance worldwide and investigates any deviation/anomaly to get to the root cause quickly.  Leverage your technical muscles and join our close-knit team who works closely with teams across Ads, Xandr, Bing, MSN, Outlook, MCG, XBOX, and more to solve these deviation mysteries.  

　　Come join the Microsoft Advertising Marketplace team! We are a team of Product Managers and Data analysts located across the world who are responsible for managing the marketplace for publishers across Microsoft first party and third party. Our team manages the Non-Search marketplace focused on Display, Video, and Native advertising. We focus on monitoring business metrics, defining metrics, building analytical & experimentation frameworks, and enabling leadership to make data driven decisions. We work closely with the Engineering team to build and ship the next generation of algorithms and optimizations to deliver the best value to customers and experience to users.

　　In-order to manage the marketplace this team has to have a deep understanding on the Ads stack as well as a curiosity and willingness to get your hands dirty with data to understand and evaluate key metrics and how our releases impact the business.

　　who are enthusiastic about contributing to the monitoring and enhancement of our publisher performance. You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are curious and willing to challenge the status quo and come up with data driven solutions to ambiguous problems.

　　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.

　　Responsibilities

　　Work with large, complex data sets, solving difficulties, analysis problems with advanced analytical or statistical methods.

　　Continuously analyze and monitor the health of the marketplace, identify opportunities, and provide insights on the drivers behind performance.

　　Deliver on high impact analytical tools to diagnose and drive business critical insights to guide product and business development.

　　Work in close coordination with the Engineering team to ship next generation of algorithms and features.

　　 Evaluate the key metrics and understand the impacts of our releases to the marketplace and the bottom line.

　　Qualifications

　　Demonstrated experience in navigating complex datasets to come up with clean and actionable insights

　　BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis.

　　Excellent communication to be able to communicate insights to senior leaders.

　　Programmatic Ads across Display, Native, and Video formats(Working with DSPs, SSPs, Ad Exchanges, etc.) experience preferred

　　Have you acquired experience in database querying using SQL.

　　Do you possess experience with data analytics tools like R, Python, Excel, Tableau, SAS, Power BI

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