Description

Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales through Generative AI solutions? We are a growing science and engineering team with an exciting charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights.

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking a top science leader to build new, Generative AI powered services that will transform the way account teams operate. This includes building autonomously orchestrated AI Agents that directly connect with advertisers, as well as core AI services that augment internal products with improved embeddings, fine-tuned LLMs and custom guardrails.

As a part of our team, you will bring deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), Deep Learning (DL), Large Language Models (LLM) and/or Generative Artificial Intelligence to build and refine models that can be implemented in production. You will be a thought leader as we chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders, leaders and customers. We are seeking a true owner who can provide science leadership, establish a vision and charter for the team, foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, and manage a team of scientists and software engineers to drive long-term success. You can build a team, launch AI models in production, write vision documents and build scalable team mechanisms.

Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing AI experiences; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest growing businesses across all of Amazon with visibility to senior leadership and an opportunity to grow quickly! Define a long-term scientific vision for our advertising sales business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for scientists, engineers and product teams. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. We’re also continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end applied science projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity
- Provide technical / science leadership related to Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) .
- Research new and innovative Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence approaches.
- Recruit high performing Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.
- Establish team mechanisms, including team building, vision setting, planning, and document reviews.

About the team
Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.