Data Scientist, Amazon Devices, Devices Sales & Marketing

The candidate in this role will own delivery of science products and solutions to help Amazon Devices Sales and Marketing org. make better decisions: product recommendations to customers segmentation financial incrementality of marketing initiatives A/B testing etc.

Key job responsibilities
The Amazon Devices organization designs produces and markets Echo Speakers Kindle e-readers Fire Tablets Fire TV Streaming Media Players Ring and Blink Smart Home & Security products. We are constantly looking to innovate on behalf of customers with new devices in existing or new categories or improving customer experience on existing platforms. The Devices Data Services (DDS) team provides Data Science Analytics and Engineering support to the broader organization to enable Sales and Marketing activities across all these product lines.

We are looking for an innovative hands-on and customer-obsessed Data Scientist who can be a strategic partner to the product managers and engineers on the team. Our projects span multiple organizations and require coordination of experimentation economic and causal analysis and building predictive machine learning models. A successful candidate will be a problem solver who enjoys diving into data is excited by difficult modeling challenges is motivated to build something that will eventually become a production software system and possesses strong communication skills to effectively interface between technical and business teams.

In this role you will be a technical expert with massive impact. You will take the lead on developing
advanced ML systems that are key to reaching our customers with the right recommendations at the right time. Your work will directly impact the success of Amazons growing Devices business. You will work across diverse science/engineering/business teams. You will work on critical data science problems building high quality reliable accurate and consistent code sets that are aligned with our business needs.

Key Performance Areas
- Implement statistical or machine learning methods to solve specific business problems.
- Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources testing model enhancements and fine-tuning model parameters.
- Directly contribute to development of modern automated recommendation systems
- Build customer-facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics to track model performance and explain variance
- Collaborate with researchers software developers and business leaders to define product requirements provide analytical support and communicate feedback

A day in the life
You will work with other scientists engineers product managers and marketers to develop new products that benefit our customers and help us reach our business goals. You will own solutions from end to end: conceptualization prioritization development delivery and productionalization.

About the team
We are a full stack science team that empowers product marketing and other business leaders to better understand customers who use Amazon devices make decisions on product development or optimization and measure the effectiveness of their efforts against our customers expectation. Our focus area is to build analytical frameworks that help the organization either access data better understand the decisions customers are making and why or assess customer satisfaction.

- 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

- Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

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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 WA Bellevue - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually