Senior Data Scientist , Amazon Partner Experience and Growth

Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Partner Experience and Growth (PEG) team leverages advanced analytics and experimentation to unlock value for our advertising partners and mutual customers i.e. the advertisers. The Science charter in PEG spearheads these efforts by optimizing the onboarding journey and providing data-driven insights to agencies and tool providers in the Amazon Ads ecosystem. Our proprietary tools provide granular visibility into what's working across audiences, creatives, targeting strategies, and more. These custom algorithmic recommendations uncover growth opportunities previously hidden in the data fog. Partners can confidently allocate budgets based on predicted performance, unlocking improved return on ad spend. And advertisers reap the benefits through expanded brand awareness, increased sales, and stronger customer loyalty over time.

Key job responsibilities

You will participate in driving features from idea to deployment, and your work will directly impact millions of customers.

You are going to love this job because you will:

Map business requirements and customer needs to a scientific problem.

Align the research direction to business requirements and make the right judgments on research/development schedule and prioritization.

Research, design and implement scalable machine learning (ML), natural language, or supervised and unsupervised models to solve problems that matter to our customers in an iterative fashion.

Mentor and develop junior scientists and developers who work on science problems in the same organization.

Stay informed on the latest machine learning, natural language and/or artificial intelligence trends and make presentations to the larger engineering and science communities.

Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear explanations on proposed solutions and their potential impact.

About the team

The Partner Science team?s vision is to drive the Advertising Partner flywheel by infusing science-based interventions at all stages of their journey with Amazon Ads including demand generation, partner selection, partner engagement, partner competition and innovation, ultimately improving the partner managed advertiser experience. We drive the vision by attracting and growing top scientist talents in an innovative, experimental, and collaborative culture.

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

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

Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science

6+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience

Experience working on science models that are in production for LLMs and causal inference

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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.