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LAYIQ - Principal Applied Science Manager - Excel Team at Microsoft

Lead, grow, mentor, and inspire an inclusive, high-performing team of applied scientists. Support individual career development and guide team members through complex technical and product problem spaces.
Maintain a hands-on, builder-oriented approach, contributing directly to technical design, prototyping, experimentation, implementation, and production readiness as needed.
Own the end-to-end technical and scientific direction for your team’s AI capabilities, from identifying customer scenarios and defining success criteria through experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement.
Translate product scenarios and customer needs into well-defined machine learning, LLM, retrieval, program synthesis, and agentic-system problems; identify key technical challenges and design experiments to address them.
Drive projects from concept through implementation, experimentation, production integration, and successful release to customers.
Establish and maintain a high scientific and engineering bar for model quality, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and customer value.
Design and drive rigorous evaluation frameworks for intelligent applications, using offline metrics, human evaluation, telemetry, real-world feedback, and failure analysis to identify opportunities for improvement.
Work directly with customers and partners to understand real-world usage patterns, pain points, and failure modes, translating those insights into product, scientific, and engineering priorities.
Lead the preparation, curation, and quality assessment of datasets used for modeling, evaluation, and experimentation, including identifying data quality constraints and opportunities.
Stay current on relevant research, industry trends, and emerging techniques, applying them pragmatically to customer-facing Excel experiences.
Collaborate across the Office Product Group and the broader Microsoft AI, research, and platform communities to share evaluation practices, adopt and contribute to common infrastructure, and avoid duplicated investment.

Principal Applied Science Manager - Excel Team

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