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 Data Analytics 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.

We are looking for high-energy Senior Data Analyst who is willing to work in a dynamic environment to monitor and grow 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.

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

• Embody ourculture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) andvalues. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 7+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

• OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with online ads

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

• 1-2 years’ experience in programming languages such as C, C#, C++, ASP.NET, Javascript

Data Analytics IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $118,800 - CAD $214,800 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 21, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .