Description

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through 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.

We are seeking a technical leader for our Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team to lead a multi-disciplinary team of science and engineering. This team is within the Sponsored Product team, and works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling, reinforcement learning (Bandits), adaptive experimentation, causal inference, data engineering.


Key job responsibilities
Search Thematic Advertising Experiences , within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model– and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business.
As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will:
--Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.
--Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.
--Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.
--Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
--Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
--Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
--Research new machine learning approaches.
--Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other scientists on the team.

A day in the life
The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must.

About the team
We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon