Manager Applied Science Amazon Compliance Shared Services

Our mission is to build bestinclass productbased compliance solutions harnessing the power of stateoftheart multilingual multimodal LLMs and generative AI to improve productivity and elevate user experiences. We develop these solutions as foundational multiuse ML services that eliminate compliance friction for our partners reduce operational costs and ensure a great buyer experience while enabling extensions beyond compliance to noncompliance use cases Amazon wide.

As a Manager Applied Science in Compliance Shared Services (CoSS) Romania Applied Research & Development Center you will lead scientists in applying stateoftheart unstructured data validation and processing approaches to develop ML primitives that enable Amazon to process unstructured content such as document and images at Amazon scale. You will lead the science vision roadmap and customer working backwards while partnering with technology and product partners to enable our bestinclass ML algorithms and solutions to be easily adopted and integrated into customer technology stacks to maximize business impact for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms that not just deliver results but also foster growth and innovation among scientists and contribute to developing CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center into a worldclass applied research organization internally within Amazon and externally in tier 1 science conferences.

A successful candidate is passionate about driving innovation and shaping the future of ecommerce spearheading the development of innovative ML LLM and generative AIdriven solutions and being a trusted role model who can energize our crossfunctional team of scientists engineers product and business leaders to persevere through challenges and setbacks to achieve impactful results on behalf of our customers.

Key job responsibilities
Lead Science Vision and Roadmap Own and drive team charter working backwards from customer problems and product strategy to develop a longterm science vision and plan team tenets and contribute to organizational working backwards documents (e.g. press release FAQs).

of Science Roadmap Including goals and supporting VPlevel business goals. Develop mechanisms that enable team to collaborate on research deliver independently and integrate with e2e process and upstream and downstream technology and business dependencies. Insist on a high bar for deliveries with monitoring and audit mechanisms for your teams solutions.

Lead Science Brand internally and externally Work with CoSS Product and leaders to expose science innovations to other organizations. Develop the CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center as a recognized brand for high quality AI research and ML products. Plan research roadmap to submit and publish in external tier 1 conferences.

Hire develop and nurture scientists Grow and develop scientists both direct reports and others in organization in not just hard science and technical skills and competencies but also leadership principles and collaborations with other scientists and project team members to grow their ability to increase scope impact and influence at Amazon.

A day in the life
10:00 am Team standup
10:30 am Review/drive key projects with scientists in team.
12:00 pm Lunch with team and/or partners in the CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center
1:00 pm Meet with EU business teams and other tech partners on dependencies status and dates for a key project.
2:00 pm Prepare for a demo with a potential customer
3:00 pm 1:1s with team
3:30 pm Continue writing a document for a new team product and research direction.
5:00 pm Meet with US leaders principal scientist manager and Product team as well as other CoSS or business partners in the US.
6:00 pm Project meeting with US partners.
7:00 pm Last minute escalation clarify teams responsibilities with a US TPM.
7.30 pm End Go home for dinner.

Experienced leading a team of scientists to deliver applied ML solutions in an industry setting while also publishing in public ML conferences.


Key author in public ML publications prior to becoming a manager.

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