Data Mining Analyst - Ads Platform

Advertising is one of Microsoft's largest investment and growth areas. Audience Intelligence (AI) is a key initiative for Microsoft's Advertising Platform to deliver on its online advertising business goals and promises to deliver relevant and effective advertising to our online consumers.

The Audience Intelligence team's charter is to revolutionize online advertising by offering multiple user-segmentation technologies and products, built on top of a robust targeting platform that is unmatched in breadth, depth and scale. You can make your mark here by helping Microsoft and advertisers improve their ROI through targeted advertising. The AI Data Mining team is responsible for the integrity and quality of targeting segments and data, and for providing analytical insights into various targeting products and features.

We are looking for a Data Mining Analyst to work on projects such as data enrichment for targeting, identifying methods to improve and maintain data quality, analyses to increase advertising yield and analyses for business-decision support.

Core Job Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will have:

• 2+ years of broad experience with various data analysis tools, data mining tools, and statistical packages
• Experience solving ad targeting, marketing and business problems using applied research, data analysis and data mining on large real-world business data sets
• Familiarity with applying data mining techniques (i.e. classification, clustering, association mining, forecasting), statistics and information retrieval methods to real-world data
• Experience with user segmentation modeling and research background
• Superior communications skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work independently and in a team to research innovative solutions to challenging business problems
• Attention to detail and data accuracy
• Good scripting and rapid prototyping skills, i.e. preferred fluency in the following: SQL, Perl, C#
• BS degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent is required for this position