Sr. Manager, Applied Science, Prime Video Personalization & Discovery

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies series documentaries and live sports including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV Max Crunchyroll and MGM. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.


Key job responsibilities
As the Sr. Manager Applied Science in the Prime Video Personalization and Discovery organization you will be responsible for optimizing the complete customer experience across the touch points throughout customers discovery journey. This includes building AI and optimization solutions working with the business product engineering teams to deliver the optimal balance of customer delight and business outcomes. Responsibilities include direct management of senior engineers and scientists setting vision and long-range technical strategy product definition roadmap planning driving cross-functional execution developing and maintaining experimentation and production services owning ML and engineering excellence quality bar and customer and stakeholder communication. Additionally as our organization is growing hiring top-notch engineers and scientists will be a key focus.

About the team
Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD) is dedicated to creating a highly personalized content discovery experience that not only delights our customers but also drives both short-and long-term business goals. Our scope includes personalized recommendations search marketing and the advanced machine learning technology and infrastructure that underpins these experiences. Our mission is to automate and enhance customer engagement through personalization using ML and Generative AI.

To drive these efforts Prime Video is seeking a visionary science leader to spearhead our investments in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to reimagine the next-generation search experience on Prime Video. You will oversee a large team delivering against our ML strategy overseeing the design of our ML stack and ensuring the quality of our models. Your success in this role will depend on your deep expertise in search personalization discovery AI/ML Generative AI and your passion for entertainment. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of television for billions of viewers worldwide. As a center of excellence in machine learning we are committed to leading the way in adopting and advancing cutting-edge technologies. We publish our research internally and externally and this role will place you at the forefront of applying Generative AI at scale using Amazons rich datasets. You will have a direct impact on shaping the future of entertainment driving massive customer experience improvements and achieving critical business KPIs.


M.S. in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field.
10 years experience in recommendation search natural language processing machine learning or a related field.
Expertise in large language models applications or demonstrated ability to develop this expertise quickly.
Proven track record of leading and managing science and engineering teams in building complex real-time systems involving AI ML NLP with successful delivery to customers.
Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large cross-functional projects with evolving requirements. Ability to take a project from requirements gathering and design to actual product launch.
Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience.
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests recommend alternative technical and business approaches and lead science efforts to meet timelines with optimal solutions.


Ph.D. in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field.
Work with academic partners to support our in-house talent with direct access to research and mentoring.
Demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed scientific publications that advance state-of-the art for applied science.

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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 SEATTLE - 218800.00 - 295900.00 USD annually