Sr. Data Scientist, Books Ads, Amazon Books Ads Science
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
The Books Advertising team owns the worldwide advertising business for books including advertiser and shopper experiences. They develop long-term vision and drive improvements for category relevance auction dynamics and ad serving. Additionally they drive advertiser engagement represent advertisers voice and provide operational support for our programs. This means the team owns all book-specific experiences for Sponsored Products Sponsored Brands Sponsored Display Lock Screen Advertising the Ads Console and the Public API.
Key job responsibilities
As an Sr. Data Scientist on this team you will:
Participate in end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale complexity.
Effectively perform hands-on analysis and research of large data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising the shopper experience.
Contribute to build machine learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
Run A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis.
Help establish scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analysis machine-learning model development model validation and serving.
Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
A day in the life
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazons Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions millions of clicks daily and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
About the team
Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business driven from our customers needs translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership organizational ability technical strength product focus and business understanding.
- 5 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 4 years of data scientist experience
- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
- 2 years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight Tableau R Shiny etc. experience
- Experience managing data pipelines
- Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 175100.00 - 236900.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
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