Principal Product Data Analyst

Do you like finding creative solutions to unlock new user value and drive business growth? Are you strategic, analytical, and customer obsessed? Are you a self-starter who thrives in shaping & wiring business, monetization & data models with the product truth and customer needs?
If so, then we welcome you to explore an exciting new Product and Business planning role in the Office Product Group at Microsoft.
Our group: Whether you are a student working on your homework or the largest organization on the planet transforming your company with a mobile and cloud, Office helps you create and share engaging content, tell compelling stories, and drive deep insights about your creations. We are building new applications to serve the emerging needs of Creators worldwide via Designer, Create, Clipchamp, Editor and many more in the works. We are infusing AI with Natural User Interactions in all of our experiences, delivering cross-platform apps, and partnering across the company and industry to invent breakthrough new productivity and creative experiences.
The role: Wire, drive and consistently deliver business anchored analysis, modeling, and continued iterations to grow the Office portfolio of existing products with AI, new user categories, and new products & monetizable scenarios. Measure successes and failures of product investments and in product GTMs with deliberate and agile pivots.Responsibilities

• Work with product and engineering to craft experiments and test hypotheses.
• Drive AI and new product monetization working with business planning, marketing, and product teams across the Enterprise and Consumer segments
• Review and manage ongoing product & business performance, leveraging inputs across team functions (product, marketing, engineering, Ops, and analytics)
• ROI analysis & investment recommendations based on market share, usage of new features, adoption by new user categories, and new products
• Partner with product teams to formalize business cases for new investments & expected ROI; including multi-year outlook for business growth, key drivers, dependencies, and product + in product gtm recommendations
• Work across the marketing and engineering partners and align on the single pane of glass to rigorously assess product & GTM successes and failures

QualificationsRequired Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or any science field and 7+ of experience in a data-intensive role, with a strong focus on product and advanced analytics OR Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or any science field with 5+ years of experience in a data-intensive role, with a strong focus on product and advanced analytics
• Experience utilizing data to drive product decisions and change minds.

Preferred Skills:

• Proven ability and established credibility in formalizing build business cases with detailed ROI for investments
• Proven Data analysis, Marketing analytics, Pricing analysis, Campaign strategy, Social media analytics skills and experience
• Demonstrated executive communication, presentation, and strategy alignment experience.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills with the proven ability to work with others and build relationships

Data Analytics IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $124,800 - $242,600 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 $159,000 - $264,000 per year.
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
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