Senior Analytics Product Lead
Microsoft
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Responsibilities
- Adobe Analytics & CJA platform SME (hands-on): Serve as the primary expert for Adobe Analytics and CJA configuration, capabilities/limitations, best practices, and day-to-day troubleshooting across collection, processing, and reporting.
- Platform operating model & governance: Establish and run the analytics product operating model: standards, governance, templates, enablement, release discipline, access controls, and platform health so teams can self-serve with confidence and consistency.
- KPI semantics & single source of truth: Oversee the definition and governance of KPI semantics across web + app (event definitions, metric meaning, and reporting rules), ensuring consistent interpretation across Adobe Analytics and CJA.
- Escalation & complex issue resolution: Act as the primary escalation point for complex platform issues, including data gaps, schema drift, identity challenges, attribution anomalies, reporting discrepancies (Adobe Analytics vs CJA), dataset/connection failures, and integration breakages.
- Configuration standards (Adobe Analytics + CJA): Define and maintain configuration standards as applicable, including:
- CJA datasets, connections, data views, derived/enriched fields, calculated metrics, segment patterns, attribution models, and Workspace standards
- Adobe Analytics report suites, processing rules, eVars/props/events, classifications, marketing channels (as applicable), and Workspace/dashboard standards
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 7+ years in product analytics, analytics platform ownership, or analytics engineering roles supporting web + mobile app analytics
- 5+ years hands-on experience with Adobe Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) and Adobe Analytics, including platform configuration, governance, troubleshooting, and stakeholder enablement.
- 5+ years familiarity with adjacent ecosystem tools and concepts (e.g., AEP Data Collection / tags, experimentation measurement, identity and attribution concepts, dashboard/workspace best practices).
- 5+ years understanding analytics platform internals: event-based data models, identity, segmentation, attribution, and Workspace/dashboard configuration.
- 5+ years operating as a platform SME: end-to-end troubleshooting from source events → data collection/config → reporting outputs across Adobe Analytics and CJA.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.
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