Sr. Applied Scientist, Seller Growth Science

Join us in the evolution of Amazon's Seller business! The Selling Partner Recruitment and Success organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business, product, and engineering, we catalyze SP growth with comprehensive and accurate data, unique insights, and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential by using our scaled, automated, and self-service tools.

We aim to accelerate the growth of Sellers by providing tools and insights that enable them to make better and faster decisions at each step of selection management. To accomplish this, we offer intelligent insights that are both detailed and actionable, allowing Sellers to introduce new products and engage with customers effectively. We leverage extensive structured and unstructured data to generate science-based insights about their business. Furthermore, we provide personalized recommendations tailored to individual Sellers' business objectives in a user-friendly format. These insights and recommendations are integrated into our products, including Amazon Brand Analytics (ABA), Product Opportunity Explorer (OX), and Manage Your Growth (MYG).

We are looking for a talented and passionate Sr. Applied Scientist to lead our research endeavors and develop world-class statistical and machine learning models. The successful candidate will work closely with Product Managers (PM), User Experience (UX) designers, engineering teams, and Seller Growth Consulting teams to provide actionable insights that drive improvements in Seller businesses.

Key job responsibilities

You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.

Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility.

You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.

You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.

About the team

The Seller Growth science team aims to provide data and science solutions to drive Seller growth and create better Seller experiences. We structure our science domain with three key themes and two horizontal components. We discover the opportunity space by identifying opportunities with unrealized potential, then generate actionable analytics to identify high value actions (HVAs) that unlock the opportunity space, and finally, empower Sellers with personalized Growth Plans and differentiated treatment that help them realize their potential.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of applied research experience

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience

- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

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, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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