Business Analyst, Amazon

Our overall mission is simple: to be Earths most customer-centric company. We want Amazon to be the place where customers can find discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want we will find the means to deliver it. With your help Amazon will deliver world-class AI-generated experiences to our customers.

Amazon is looking for a Business Analyst based in Cape Town to join our Community Feedback Annotation this role you will assess the quality of output produced by human-in-the-loop annotators and ML models delivering actionable insights to science teams that directly improve model performance. You will work with annotated training and evaluation data used to train AI models powering customer-facing experiences.

The ideal Business Analyst ensures team priorities and tasks are aligned to delivering high-quality labeled and annotated data. You will set and oversee quality standards coach and develop your team and build a work environment where annotators are engaged and feel a genuine sense of achievement about their role in delivering world-class data.

You will produce reports showing quality assessments completed by your team conduct data analysis to identify key drivers reducing model effectiveness and present evidence-backed findings to science engineering and business teams.


Key job responsibilities
Leadership
Communicates the Amazon mission vision and strategy with clarity and conviction
Demonstrates passion for delivering a positive customer experience and maintains composure in difficult situations
Provides overall direction performance management coordination and evaluation of team output
Experience interviewing and selecting candidates who maintain a high-performance bar
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable interacting with stakeholders up to Director level
Positive communicator who knows when and how to have honest conversations
Confidently facilitates team discussions and communicates business messages
Maintains a high level of professionalism and approachability
Adapts well to changing circumstances direction and strategy
Organizes prioritizes and schedules work assignments effectively
Proven ability to manage reporting data manipulation and analysis
Experience managing core business KPIs
Assists in developing and implementing training programs to improve team quality and productivity

Operational Delivery
Understands operational principles of service delivery and uses data to drive continuous improvement
Prepares metric reviews using data and insights
Acts as the operational representative for business teams understanding voice of the partner in key process or policy changes
Builds plans to test and experiment with new approaches to service delivery

Continuous Improvement
Uses data to identify areas of ongoing improvement in service delivery
Collaborates with the annotation team and linguistic experts to refine and develop annotation guidelines accounting for language nuances linguistic phenomena and diverse use cases
Continuously communicates with model development teams providing insights on annotation challenges linguistic subtleties and potential improvements to model performance
Ensures accuracy and integrity of annotated data through regular quality checks identifying and addressing inconsistencies and maintaining high data cleanliness standards
Works closely with annotation team members data scientists and linguists to ensure effective collaboration and knowledge sharing
Stays current with linguistic trends developments and emerging language phenomena to adapt annotation strategies and guidelines accordingly


A day in the life
This is an IC role focused on quality assessments and data insights for business teams to action and drive improvement. You will provide reports detailing audit outcomes and quality assessments and present findings trends and insights to business and science teams to improve model training.

About the team
Our team is passionate about human motivation and behavior and uses machine learning classification algorithms and scalable platform services to have a cross-org impact every day. We evaluate user research customer experience knowledge data and cross-Amazon moderation expertise to ensure other teams think about customer trust.



- Experience as a Quality Specialist and/or Quality Analyst
- Experience as a business analyst/data analyst/statistical analyst and conducting analysis and data mining using Excel

- Experience with AWS solutions such as EC2 DynamoDB S3 and Redshift

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and we value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age sex disability sexual orientation race religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of this regard the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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