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The Advertiser & Publisher Solutions (APS) business unit is building the monetization engine for Microsoft�s and third-party-publishers� online services. The adCenter platform determines which ads to serve to optimize relevance for our users, traffic and ROI for our advertisers, and revenue for our publishers.

To continue growing and strengthening adCenter, APS is building a data-mining and analytics team called APS Auction Analytics. The Auction Analytics team drives monetization improvements working across all parts of the organization including engineering, customer-service operations, advertising sales, and product management. Analysts on the APS Analytics team work closely with business partners to enable rigorous, effective, data-driven decision making.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to resolve the analytic needs of our clients and business partners;
• Contribute analyses related to critical R&D initiatives;
• Contribute to the generation of reports and deliver results as necessary;
• Generate analyses and insights to inform senior leaders� decisions through rigorous data mining and statistical techniques.

• Ability to engage business partners in a professional manner and support your arguments with deep, structured analysis;
• Ability to explain complex analyses in a simple, straightforward way and to gather and incorporate feedback from business partners into your work;
• Excellent Excel and SQL skills;
• Prior experience analyzing and manipulating large data sets;
• Expert knowledge of statistical tools like R, SAS, or SPSS;
• Expert project management skills and the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects.

• A bachelors degree and an advanced degree, such as a Master�s or PhD in statistics, economics, mathematics or related fields (or the equivalent combination of education and experience);
• 5+ years experience in marketing-related analytics;
• Programming experience in C# a significant plus;
• Advanced statistics knowledge;
• Thorough understanding of database development.

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To learn more about the Microsoft's APS Analytics team, please contact jenap@microsoft.com.