Data Scientist - Event Analytics

The Global Marketing Engines and Experiences (E&E) team within Microsoft is responsible for delivering integrated marketing experiences for Microsoft by building, running, and innovating a globally scaled engine to deliver connected journeys that delight customers and create fans. The Marketing Analytics and Data Science team within E&E enables data-driven decision making by providing data products and insights that measure marketing's performance and impact, deepen understanding of customer behavior, and drive marketing efficiency and return on investment (ROI).

We are looking for a Marketing Data Scientist - Event Analytics who thrives at the intersection of events intelligence, causal measurement, and business impact - someone who can transform complex event and multichannel data into rigorous models that quantify how events influence marketing and business outcomes.  Are you passionate about causal measurement, applied modeling, and understanding how marketing events actually move the business? Would you like to build the models and measurement approaches that partner with some of the world's most innovative event marketers and demand generation leaders, all whilst working in the dynamic, data-rich world of global-scale events supporting cloud-based business products? As a Marketing Data Scientist – Event Analytics in E&E, you will be a key modeler and hands-on contributor for events measurement across Microsoft's marketing ecosystem, from flagship events like Microsoft Ignite, Build, and AI Tour to regional roadshows, virtual, and hybrid formats. You'll build the modeling layer that estimates the incremental impact of events on downstream business outcomes (such as engagement, demand, and pipeline), connecting event registration and engagement data with customer relationship management (CRM), sales, and multichannel demand generation signals to isolate the impact of events. You'll design causal and statistical frameworks, accounting for confounding, selection bias, and attendee self-selection, and translate the results into executive-ready insights that help Event Marketing, Brand, product marketing management (PMM,) Customer Insights, and demand generation leaders make faster, better-informed decisions. We are seeking someone who is curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to use rigorous causal and statistical techniques to develop scalable, trustworthy event measurement. You build on the successes of others, value cross-team collaboration, and contribute to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Event Impact Modeling & Causal Measurement

• Help build and maintain the modeling framework that quantifies the impact of Microsoft marketing events, including flagship global events (Ignite, Build, AI Tour), regional experiences, virtual events, hybrid formats, and industry conferences
• Design and apply causal inference approaches to estimate the true impact of events in settings where randomized experiments may be limited or infeasible
• Connect event participation and engagement signals to CRM data to estimate event contribution
• Establish standardized, defensible measurement methodologies and benchmarks for event impact across different event formats, scales, and business objectives

Modeling, Statistics & Analysis

• Apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques (e.g., regression modeling, propensity scoring, survival analysis, cohort analysis, time-series forecasting, uplift modeling) with a bias toward interpretability and causal validity over purely predictive performance
• Balance methodological rigor with pragmatism, selecting approaches that are fit for purpose given observational, incomplete, or biased marketing data
• Write high-quality analytical code (Python, SQL) to support reproducible research, exploratory analysis, and ongoing measurement efforts
• Develop and support experimentation frameworks (A/B tests, holdouts, geo-based designs) to strengthen causal claims and rigorously test event marketing tactics, channel strategies, and audience targeting approaches

Demand Generation & Multichannel Attribution

• Build and refine attribution and contribution models that connect demand generation activities - email campaigns, paid media, social promotions, owned content, seller outreach - to event registrations, attendance, and downstream outcomes
• Integrate and normalize data across web analytics, marketing automation, event registration systems, email platforms, paid media tools, and CRM/sales systems to create a unified, analysis-ready view
• Analyze channel effectiveness, funnel performance, and audience journey patterns to identify which channels and tactics drive the highest-quality business outcomes
• Develop frameworks that relate event and channel investment to opportunity, pipeline, and revenue outcomes by segment and campaign

Data Understanding, Enablement & Stewardship

• Prepare, validate, and analyze complex event, web, marketing automation, and sales datasets, identifying data quality issues, structural changes, and limitations
• Communicate data risks, constraints, and appropriate caveats proactively to senior partners, ensuring conclusions are appropriately scoped
• Help productize models and measurement into repeatable outputs and self-service dashboards (e.g., Power BI) that democratize access to event impact insights across Event Marketing, Demand Generation, PMM, Brand, and regional teams
• Collaborate with Data Services and Data Engineering to ensure event, web, marketing automation, and sales data are accurate, integrated, compliant, and ready for analytical use, upholding high standards for data ethics, privacy, and responsible use

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Required/minimum qualifications

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
• OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in data science, statistical modeling, or marketing/measurement analytics
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in data science, statistical modeling, or marketing/measurement analytics
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in data science, statistical modeling, or marketing/measurement analytics
• OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in data science, statistical modeling, or marketing/measurement analytics
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in data science, statistical modeling, or marketing/measurement analytics
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building machine learning or statistical models to measure business impact, including causal or quasi-experimental methods
• Experience applying statistical techniques to marketing data, such as regression modeling, propensity scoring, cohort analysis, survival analysis, A/B testing, and time-series forecasting
• Experience analyzing business to business (B2B) marketing and event data from multiple disparate sources, including marketing attribution methodologies
• Experience connecting marketing engagement data to CRM/sales pipeline systems to measure opportunity and pipeline impact
• Experience with SQL, Python or R for statistical analysis and modeling, and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker •
• Experience with Microsoft data products such as Fabric, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Synapse, and Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Experience with event technology platforms and large-scale flagship or multi-event programs

Data Science IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.