Senior Analytical Lead - Microsoft Advertising

Microsoft Advertising is at the forefront of the digital advertising industry, providing top advertisers worldwide with the tools to grow their reach through various online marketing, display, video, and retail solutions. We are looking for an Analytical Lead who is driven by data and has potential to influence business strategies and produce tangible results.

As a Senior Analytical Lead in Microsoft Advertising, you will generate insights and recommendations that directly benefit our clients, enhancing their business performance and opening up new investment avenues on our Microsoft Advertising platform. Your role involves synthesizing industry knowledge, digital marketing expertise, and advanced analytical methods to craft compelling data stories that sway decision-makers using visualizations and narrative techniques. You should possess solid analytical, problem-solving, and consulting abilities, along with a proactive, challenging mindset and excellent partnership management skills.

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Responsibilities

• Understanding the Business Landscape: Gain a deep understanding of various industries, considering trends, competitive dynamics, and the unique value propositions of clients. Look beyond surface-level concerns to uncover underlying business challenges and opportunities for Microsoft Advertising.
• Data Utilization: Collaborate with internal and client teams to source relevant data, select the best statistical methods for integration, and address any data gaps or quality issues.
• Analytical Approach: Apply suitable analytical methods to business inquiries, deliver actionable insights through analysis, and enhance forecasts and existing analyses. Ensure the chosen tools and techniques are apt for the context and provide constructive feedback on their features and functions.
• Communicating Results: Craft components of presentations for both internal and client audiences that effectively narrate the findings, reports, and data visualizations. Strive for clarity and accuracy in conveying information, tailoring content to meet the needs of senior stakeholders and building trust with clients.
• Teamwork and Expertise Development: Collaborate with both internal and client teams to enhance expertise in data sources, methodologies, models, analytical tools, and processes. Understand the specific needs of different industries to deliver impactful results. Engage with stakeholders to identify opportunities for utilizing successful resources and solutions from past projects and provide guidance on analysis and interpretation.
• Data Privacy and Ethical Standards: Keep up to date with data privacy laws and governance, knowing when to seek expert advice. Assess how new guidelines affect your work and ensure that all deliverables comply with ethical standards and controls.
• Embody and promote Microsoft’s culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in statistics, mathematics, analytics, data science, engineering, computer science, marketing, business, data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, business and financial analysis, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience using tools such as PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, R, SQL for data manipulation and visualization on large datasets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years in a partner or account management/client service/client-facing role.
• Experience in digital media, data analysis, and data management.
• Dynamic and creative critical thinking skills, with an ability to think outside of the box.
• Programmatic/advertising industry experience
• Solid ability to communicate complex analyses to a mix of both technical and non-technical partners and clients.
• Experience utilizing analytical tools to turn massive, dynamic datasets into actionable insights.
• Comfort and enjoyment with working in ambiguous environments.
• Solid communication skills to work with partners in various areas of Microsoft Advertising.
• Experience pairing data visualization with storytelling to deliver persuasive presentations that influence varying audience levels.
• Experience and proficiency using PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, SQL for data manipulation and visualization. Working knowledge and familiarity in a combination of the following data manipulation and visualization tools: Python, R, PowerPivot, Microsoft Advertising API.
• Working knowledge of statistics, predictive modeling and data clustering/classification techniques.
• Infectious sense of enthusiasm, fun, and imagination to contribute to high-performing team culture.
• Comfort working in an agile and constantly evolving environment while thriving amid ambiguity.

Advertising Insights IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
• Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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