Description

We are seeking an entrepreneurial, innovative and self-driven Senior Data Scientist to join our team. Your mission will be to leverage science, technology, and data analysis to help advertisers and hundreds of thousands of independent sellers grow their business on WW Amazon marketplaces by understanding how brand ads are working for them and coming up with scaled recommendations. You can change the life of local business owners while taking ownership to solve scientific challenges from analyzing millions of global advertising campaigns and generating brand insights and recommendations for all our advertisers.

The Sponsored Brands Advertiser Control team is a versatile environment, with a wide variety of challenges. We guide advertisers to make informed decisions by recommendations, sharing insights, and forecasts. We help advertisers deliver effective campaigns automatically by optimizing campaign settings on behalf of them. We enable advertisers to achieve brand advertising goals with maximum efficiency. We have the opportunity to deliver social impact, own technical problems, thought diversity, and business impact.

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 Amazon’s 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.

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 scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

As a Senior Data Scientist on this team you will:

Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end.

Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with ambiguity and complexity.

Influence multiple teams and able to work closely with business teams, build consensus, and advise business leaders.

Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, analyze data, and build dashboards.

Build Statistical and Machine Learning models to solve specific business problems.

Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.

Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.

Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.

Formalize assumptions about how our systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed.

Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.

Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for the business problems you define.

Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE

Basic Qualifications

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

Bachelor's degree

Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

Experience working with scientists, economists, software developers, or product managers

Preferred Qualifications

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.