Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Advertising

Position Overview

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon’s fastest growing and most profitable businesses, driving discovery and sales through innovative advertising products. In this role as a Senior Data Scientist, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to solve complex business challenges, influence customer-facing experiences, and deliver data-driven insights that propel long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Data Science solutions from inception to deployment.
• Independently tackle large-scale, complex problems with ambiguity.
• Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data.
• Build machine learning and statistical models to address specific business challenges.
• Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in actionable formats.
• Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
• Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to solve business problems.
• Define and detect outliers through systematic methods and develop corrective actions.
• Create automatic scripts for anomaly detection and perform deep-dive analyses.
• Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions.
• Deliver written and verbal presentations to audiences with varied technical backgrounds.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of data visualization experience using tools like AWS QuickSight, Tableau, or R Shiny.
• Experience managing data pipelines.
• Proven leadership and mentoring experience on a data science team.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Base pay ranges from $143,300/year to $247,600/year depending on geographic market, complemented by a total compensation package that may include equity, sign-on payments, and other financial benefits.
• Benefits: Access a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits. For more details, please visit our benefits page.