Online Data Ninja
Do you want to transform the way we build online services at Microsoft? Do you want to have impact across multiple products and services such as MSN, Microsoft.com, Xbox.com, Office.com and many more? Would you like to be in the forefront of a rapidly expanding quantitative field? Then join the Microsoft Experimentation Platform team.
The Experimentation Platform enables product groups at Microsoft to innovate using controlled experiments with live users. The platform allows teams to test new ideas quickly using the best-known scientific method for establishing causality between a feature and its effects: randomized experimental design. Experimentation, when used properly can literally transform the way we produce software in the online space.
Are you passionate about finding patterns and solving problems with data? There are often software or experimental issues that may cause a bias in experimental results. We need you to be the detective to find the source of these issues and help determine corrective action. In addition, we would want you to help clients plan and analyze experiments and interpret results. Your expertise with relational databases, including SQL, building cubes and data mining will be essential elements of your success.
Our team functions like a startup, giving you many opportunities to learn and develop and giving you responsibility to help define our future services to clients. You will be a part of a change in the way Microsoft develops software for the web – from long cycle times for release of a boxed product to frequent testing of ideas to change the many websites under the Microsoft umbrella.
Baseline qualifications:
• Several year’s experience working with large relational databases
• An undergraduate degree or equivalent in a quantitative area (e.g. math, statistics, engineering)
Desirable attributes:
• Experience applying statistical methods in a business setting
• Experience with SQL Server Analysis Services, cubes and data mining
• A BS or MS in Computer Science, Statistics or Data mining
To learn more about the Experimentation Platform, visit http://exp-platform.com. For questions, please e-mail exp-jobs at microsoft dot you know what.