Senior Manager, Applied Science, Prime Video - Content Localization Team

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast
collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of
devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their
favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM
Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from
Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+.
All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can
rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content
for free with ads.
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's
technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video team member, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product,
user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art
experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are
fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new
possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to
make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for
talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes
you!

As a highly experienced and seasoned science leader, you will apply state of the
art natural language processing, generative AI, audio and computer vision
research to video centric digital media. You are responsible for creating and
maintaining the best environment for applied science in order to recruit, retain
and develop top talent. You will lead the research direction for a team of
deeply talented applied scientists, creating the roadmaps for forward-looking
research and communicate them effectively to senior leadership. You will also
hire and develop applied scientists - growing the team to meet the evolving
needs of our customers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of applied research experience
• 5+ years of management experience with scientists and/or machine learning engineers
• 5+ 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 that have been successfully delivered to customers, especially involving Generative AI, machine learning and computer vision.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining the best environment for applied science in order to recruit, retain and develop top talent.
• Lead the research direction for a team of deeply talented applied scientists, creating the roadmaps for forward-looking research and communicate them effectively to senior leadership.
• Hire and develop applied scientists - growing the team to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

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