Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Advertising

Amazon

Los Angeles, CA

Full Time

Senior

143k-248k

3 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. 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! As a Senior Data Scientist on this team, you will lead data science solutions from beginning to end, working on large-scale problems with independence, and applying statistical and machine learning techniques to improve system performance and support business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end.
Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity.
Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data.
Build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems.
Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.
Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.
Formalize assumptions about how systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers.
Work out why examples are outliers and define if any actions are needed.
Generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, explain why they happen, and identify fixes.
Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for business problems.
Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights with audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab).
4+ years of data scientist experience.
Bachelor's degree.
Experience with statistical models such as multinomial logistic regression.

Nice to Have

2+ years of data visualization experience using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc.
Experience managing data pipelines.
Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team.

Qualifications

Educational background with a Bachelor's degree.

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary ranging from $143,300/year to $247,600/year depending on geographic location and experience.
Total compensation including equity, sign-on payments, and other benefits.
Medical, financial, and other benefits as part of the total package.

Working at Amazon

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging experimentation and innovation.

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