Applied Science Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands
About The Position
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 Amazon.com and beyond. They 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. The team is dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. This role is for an Applied Science Manager to lead the Amazon Sponsored Agent (ASA) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). ASA is a new agentic service that enables publishers and apps to monetize their AI experiences with conversational and agentic ads. This team owns the core ASA platform that serves contextual ads across 1P surfaces (Alexa+, Amazon.com) and 3P publisher integrations, delivering AI-native ad formats including Sponsored Collections, Sponsored Brand Agents, and Commercial Insights that seamlessly integrate into conversational experiences.
Requirements
- 4+ years of applied research experience
- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Nice To Haves
- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers
Responsibilities
- Innovate and design new conversational ad experiences that transform how customers discover and engage with products on conversational surfaces
- Lead a team of applied scientists and engineers to build and scale ASA's multi-agent system architecture for conversational commerce
- Own the science roadmap for contextual ad serving, conversation understanding, and commercial insights generation that help publishers monetize their AI chat experiences and unlock opportunities to scale Amazon's advertising business into new conversational surfaces
- Manage and grow a science team
- Set research direction
- Influence product strategy
- Work across organizational boundaries with engineering, product, and business teams to translate science investments and innovative product concepts into measurable business impact
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
