Applied Science Manager GenAI, CreativeX, Amazon Advertising

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. Amazon's
advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed
via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold
through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products
they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business
objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on
behalf of customers.
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!

The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to
high-quality creatives (images, videos) by building AI-driven solutions for
advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models,
large language models (LLM), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL), and
image + video and audio synthesis.

We are looking for a talented Applied Science Manager who can help set the
scientific agenda and provide best in class mentoring within the scope of
advancing advertiser-facing generative AI. You will help lead scientists within
a close-knit team who is highly collaborative and at the top of their respective
fields.

Our science team is adept at a variety of skills, especially with agentic AI,
generative multi-modal models, LLMs, computer vision, latent diffusion and
related foundational models. As a Science Manager you will:
Help set the scientific agenda in collaboration with org's leadership, product
managers, engineering and relevant stakeholders.
You will guide the team to be world-class at developing large scale generative
AI for advertising.
Help mentor scientists towards also contributing with patent submissions,
potential peer-reviewed research publications and bar raising hiring.
Contribute and help establish mechanisms for science management,
brainstorming, monitoring and validation of outputs.
Hire and develop the best science talent at Amazon.
Present strategy, methods and results to senior leadership.

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 team with
an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Requirements

• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
• PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
• Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables
• Experience writing strategy documents for executive audiences with clear recommendations in the midst of ambiguity
• Background in Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead science and AI software (/MLE) engineering talent to deliver world-class innovative generative AI for advertising.
• Help set the scientific agenda in collaboration with org's leadership, product managers, engineering and relevant stakeholders.
• Help mentor scientists & AI software talent towards contributing with patent submissions, potential peer-reviewed research publications and bar raising mentoring and hiring.
• Contribute and help establish mechanisms for science and technical management, brainstorming, monitoring and validation of outputs.
• Hire and develop the best technical talent at Amazon.
• Write strategy and alignment documents for partners within and outside the org.
• Present strategy, methods and results to senior leadership.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree