Senior Data Scientist, SPB Global Optimization

Amazon • New York, NY

6d

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. We 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. We are a passionate
group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI
technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping
experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving
complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join
us in shaping the future of advertising.

The Global Optimization (GO) team within Sponsored Products and Brands at Amazon
Ads is re-imagining the advertising stack from the ground up across 20+
marketplaces.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our team. You will
develop scalable analytical approaches to evaluate marketplace performance
across the entire Ads stack to uncover regional and marketplace-specific
insights, design and run experiments, and shape our development roadmap.

We operate as a closely integrated team of Data Scientists, Applied Scientists,
and Engineers to translate data-driven insights into measurable business impact.
If you're energized by solving complex challenges at international scale and
pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GenAI, join us in shaping the
future of global advertising at Amazon.

About the team
SPB Global Optimization (GO) team was created to accelerate growth in non-US
markets. We are driving business growth across all marketplaces by creating
delightful experiences for shoppers and advertisers alike. We are working
backwards from customers to re-imagine Amazon's advertising stack from the
ground up, leveraging GenAI to deliver solutions that scale across 20+
marketplaces from day one.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Write code to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data to derive business insights.
• Apply statistical and ML knowledge to specific business problems and data.
• Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
• Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work and develop methods to systematically identify high ROI improvements.

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: Mid Level