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Senior Data Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 19, 2025 | |
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OverviewDevelopers are at the heart of the AI transformation - driving innovation, shaping the future, and building what's next. We are seeking a passionate and strategic Senior Data Scientist to help redefine how developers use AI-powered tools and platforms within Windows to help their customers achieve more. In this role, you will empower millions of developers to bring their ideas to life faster and more intelligently, accelerating innovation across the software development lifecycle. You'll work closely with product teams to embed data-driven thinking into every stage of product development-from ideation to launch. Your insights will directly influence product direction, uncover new opportunities, and help shape the future of AI-driven development. As a Senior Data Scientist on this Redmond-based Windows Data team, you will be part of Microsoft's AI transformation, impacting the experience of billions of Windows users. You'll explore novel ways to extract insights from data, design experiments, and build models that drive clarity and customer success. 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.
ResponsibilitiesYou will work closely with a variety of teams including senior leadership, product management, software engineers, design, and User Research to shape business and product strategy through the use of data-backed insights. You will identify instrumentation needs, define and set up metrics and OKRs, deeply analyze the data to identify insights and experiment ideas that move our business metrics. You will design and execute on Growth Experiments, analyze results to identify key insights. You will help evaluate the return of investments on new ideas, to assess if investments are meeting customer and business promises, and hypotheses and insights to drive growth. You will build models that predict customer behavior that will be used to drive personalized features and targeted outreach efforts. You will drive best practices for models and develop operational models that run at scale. You'll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and identify and invent new evaluation methods. You will research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices. You'll also write extensible code that spans multiple features, and develop expertise in proper debugging techniques. | |