Senior Data Scientist, SPB Global Optimization

Description

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.

Key job responsibilities
As a Data Scientist on this team, you will:
- 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.

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.

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

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.