Sr. Data Mining Manager

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 technology and data, and for providing analytical insights into various targeting products and features. We are looking for a Senior Data Mining Manager to drive multiple efforts including: segmentation, modeling, analyses for business decision-support, quality control, measurement, business interactions, and evangelism of existing and new targeting products.

The ideal person in this role will be managing a team of data mining analysts and should be comfortable working with other disciplinary teams such as Program Managers, Developers, Testers, Researchers, Product Planners and Product Managers.

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage data mining analyst team to create, maintain, and analyze targeting technologies across multiple markets worldwide
• Drive the thought leadership and execution behind analytical insights needed to improve our targeting products
• Drive deployment and quality control processes for existing targeting technologies
• Work with internal business teams to develop new research and insights
• Drive initiatives to experiment with, measure, maintain and improve overall targeting quality, efficiency, and accuracy
• Drive measurements and scorecards for the overall targeting product
• Collaborate and negotiate with different teams (engineering, research, business) to drive multiple initiatives across Audience Intelligence, including but not limited to, ad targeting

• 5+ years of experience in a senior role collaborating with and driving multiple teams to deliver projects on schedule
• Proven ability managing data mining or research teams
• User segmentation modeling and data mining/statistics background
• Experience with experimentation techniques and methodologies
• Superior organization and communications skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Attention to detail and data accuracy, and experience on large real-world business data sets
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience with various scripting and data analysis tools, such as Perl, C#, SQL, Excel, R
• An MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience