Head of Applied Science

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ABOUT THIS ROLE
As a Senior Manager Applied Science you will manage high-performing research teams. Our fast-paced environment requires a high degree of independence in making decisions and driving ambitious research agendas all the way to production. You will work with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize velocity and impact of your teams contributions.

ABOUT YOU
You drive the technical vision and strategy for your team while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific excellence. You lead a fast-paced cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are leaders in the field. You take on challenging problems distill real requirements and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking.

As a Senior Manager Applied Science you will...
- Lead and manage teams of applied scientists and machine learning engineers providing mentorship career development and performance management
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for applied science initiatives balancing innovation with business impact
- Work with new technologies and methodologies that improve model performance usability and scalability of ML systems
- Translate complex business requirements into technical deliverables and deliver operationally stable solutions that provide exceptional customer experiences
- Participate in the full development cycle end-to-end from research and design to implementation testing documentation delivery and maintenance
- Evaluate and make strategic decisions around the use of new or existing ML frameworks tools and technologies
- Collaborate with Senior Engineers Principal Engineers and Principal Scientists across the organization to define architecture and research plans for the next three years
- Drive scientific rigor through experimentation A/B testing and data-driven decision making
Partner with cross-functional teams including product management engineering and business stakeholders to align science initiatives with business objectives
- Publish research findings and represent Amazon at top-tier conferences and in the scientific community
- Establish best practices for ML development including model evaluation monitoring and continuous improvement

ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners imaginations offering immersive cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

- Masters degree or above in computer science machine learning engineering or related fields or Associates degree or above
- 10 years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience
- Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Experience hiring and leading experienced scientists as well as having a successful record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a successful career track

- PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning AI Statistics or equivalent)
- Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning Computer Vision Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications
- 10 years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large-scale applications experience
- 5 years of people management experience
- Experience leading mentoring and growing teams of scientists (teams of five or more scientists)

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