Senior Data Scientist, Sponsored Products

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers enhance the shopping experience and strengthen the marketplace. If youre energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Amazon Ads Response Prediction team is your choice if you want to join a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. We are seeking an experienced and motivated Machine Learning Applied Scientist who loves to innovate at the intersection of customer experience deep learning and high-scale machine-learning systems.

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising and is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

We are looking for a talented Machine Learning Applied Scientist for our Amazon Ads Response Prediction team to grow the business. We are providing advanced real-time machine learning services to connect shoppers with right ads on all platforms and surfaces worldwide. Through the deep understanding of both shoppers and products we help shoppers discover new products they love be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their customers and helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.


Key job responsibilities
* Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business and identify gaps and new opportunities
* Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems
* Run regular A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis
* Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
* Improve the scalability efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics model training deployment and serving
* Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business

- 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
- Bachelors degree
- 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
USA WA SEATTLE - 159200.00 - 215300.00 USD annually