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Amazon

Measurement Scientist Lead

Seattle, WA

DESCRIPTION

Do you have a passion for diving deep to uncover key insights that drive critical business decisions? If yes, the Customer Behavior Cross Channel Optimization (CBA-XO) team is looking for somebody with your enthusiasm and skills to work as part of the team. We are looking for an experienced scientist who is curious, driven, and passionate about marketing insights and analytics. If you are looking for a role where you can make a major impact, we want to meet you.

The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon's insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams' decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience. CBA-XO's mission is to make Amazon's marketing the most measurably effective in the world. Our long-term objective is to measure the incremental impact of all Amazon's marketing investments on consumer perceptions, actions, and sales. This requires measuring Amazon's marketing comparably and consistently across channels, business teams and countries using a comprehensive approach that integrates all Paid, Owned and Earned marketing activity. As the experts on marketing performance we will lead the Amazon worldwide marketing community by providing critical cross-country insights that can power marketing best practices and tenets globally.

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This role will work closely with scientists and engineers to develop and run statistical models to understand customer behavior and how customers respond to Amazon's marketing. You will collaborate directly with economists to produce modeling solutions, partner with software developers and data engineers to build end-to-end data pipelines and production code, and have exposure to senior leadership as we communicate results and provide scientific guidance to the business. You will analyze large amounts of business data, automate, and scale the analysis, and develop metrics that will enable us to continually delight our customers worldwide.

As a successful scientist, you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, is excited about investigations and algorithms, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. Your analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical savvy will be used to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities.

Responsibilities Include:
• Build models and tools using technical knowledge in machine learning, statistical modeling, probability and decision theory, and other quantitative techniques.
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful analytic solutions.
• Innovate by adapting to new modeling techniques and procedures.
• Utilizing code (preferably Python) for analyzing data and building statistical models to solve specific business problems
• Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters
• Collaborate with researchers, software developers, and business leaders to define product requirements and provide analytical support
• Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers and leadership team with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations

Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD degree with 4+ years of applied research experience or a Master's degree and 6+ years of experience of applied research experience
• 3+ years of experience in building machine learning models for business application
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• 3+ years of experience directly managing scientists and/or machine learning engineers
• Three or more years of experience in development of technology products
• Strong background in statistics methodology, applications to business problems, and/or big data
• Hands on experience with at least one of the following: Python, Spark
• Experience coaching and reviewing work of junior ML Scientists
• Experience building production level systems for causal inference

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or related field
• Strong background in statistical modeling (e.g., program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and/or high dimensional problems), economic theory, and quantitative methods
• 3+ years of experience in developing analytical solutions for business problems
• Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment
• Strong research and applied track record
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Marketing industry knowledge and previous experience in working on measurement / causal inference modeling

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us

Job ID: Amazon-1308234
Employment Type: Other

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