Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 836551-110950
Division: Online Services Division
The rise of smart phones is paving the way for the trio Social, Local and Mobile Revolution. As part of the Bing Local Search Team you can be at the center of it all!
The Bing Local Platform team is responsible for delivering the most accurate, fresh and relevant local data to Bing users on desktops, tablets, and mobile - and we’re looking to bring the Bing local experience to over 100+ countries in the world!
Being part of the Local Search Data Platform team, you will be part of a fully charged, fast paced, innovative and fun team. The platform is responsible for ingesting, integrating and matching the data from various providers and web mining sources to build one rich entity index that denotes the real physical place in the world that people search for on Bing. The local data includes restaurants, doctors, professionals, businesses, parks, schools, attractions, hotels, reviews and many others. Our impact is far reaching, we work closely with Local Search Relevance, UX, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Nokia, and International teams among others.
We’re looking for a strong program manager to join the Bing Local Search PM team. You will work with a team of talented PMs focused on building the data platform, entity resolution/Conflation and inference that publish a rich and accurate Local entity index. This role provides a rare opportunity to lead the rollout of Bing Local Search in new countries and also ship services and components on the local Data Platform that will solve challenging problems we face today in many local markets around the world.
Scope and responsibilities:
Develop strategies for improving Local data comprehensiveness, richness, accuracy and freshness
Drive the rollout of Local Search in a new market, ship new market specific components and services.
Drive innovation and development of conflation/record linkage and data publishing algorithms
Apply statistical techniques to content quality and performance metrics
Provide exemplary project leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment
Skills & Qualifications:
Strong technical skills, preferably with data and large scale distributed computing systems
Strong creative, analytical and critical thinking abilities; experience in statistical analysis is a plus
Demonstrable creativity and strategic thinking and have high tolerance for ambiguity.
Entrepreneurial spirit - Self-starter, project finisher and sociable player with a can do attitude.
Ability to collaborate effectively with a large number of partners and customers
Ability to write simple, clear scenarios, problem statements, requirements and specifications.
Experience in search, Big data, information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning is a plus
A Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical discipline
5+ years of technical program management experience in the software product cycle driving features from initial planning and design, to implementation and release.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on something strategic to help Microsoft win.
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Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 836551-110950
Division: Online Services Division
The rise of smart phones is paving the way for the trio Social, Local and Mobile Revolution. As part of the Bing Local Search Team you can be at the center of it all!
The Bing Local Platform team is responsible for delivering the most accurate, fresh and relevant local data to Bing users on desktops, tablets, and mobile - and we’re looking to bring the Bing local experience to over 100+ countries in the world!
Being part of the Local Search Data Platform team, you will be part of a fully charged, fast paced, innovative and fun team. The platform is responsible for ingesting, integrating and matching the data from various providers and web mining sources to build one rich entity index that denotes the real physical place in the world that people search for on Bing. The local data includes restaurants, doctors, professionals, businesses, parks, schools, attractions, hotels, reviews and many others. Our impact is far reaching, we work closely with Local Search Relevance, UX, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Nokia, and International teams among others.
We’re looking for a strong program manager to join the Bing Local Search PM team. You will work with a team of talented PMs focused on building the data platform, entity resolution/Conflation and inference that publish a rich and accurate Local entity index. This role provides a rare opportunity to lead the rollout of Bing Local Search in new countries and also ship services and components on the local Data Platform that will solve challenging problems we face today in many local markets around the world.
Scope and responsibilities:
Develop strategies for improving Local data comprehensiveness, richness, accuracy and freshness
Drive the rollout of Local Search in a new market, ship new market specific components and services.
Drive innovation and development of conflation/record linkage and data publishing algorithms
Apply statistical techniques to content quality and performance metrics
Provide exemplary project leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment
Skills & Qualifications:
Strong technical skills, preferably with data and large scale distributed computing systems
Strong creative, analytical and critical thinking abilities; experience in statistical analysis is a plus
Demonstrable creativity and strategic thinking and have high tolerance for ambiguity.
Entrepreneurial spirit - Self-starter, project finisher and sociable player with a can do attitude.
Ability to collaborate effectively with a large number of partners and customers
Ability to write simple, clear scenarios, problem statements, requirements and specifications.
Experience in search, Big data, information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning is a plus
A Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical discipline
5+ years of technical program management experience in the software product cycle driving features from initial planning and design, to implementation and release.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on something strategic to help Microsoft win.
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