Senior Data Scientist, Sponsored Products

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Overview

Based in New York, NY on site, this Senior Data Scientist role focuses on Sponsored Products and Brands within Amazon Ads. The compensation range is USD 175,100 to 236,900 per year. A Bachelor's degree is required. Candidates typically bring at least 4 years of data science experience and 5+ years in data querying languages or statistical/mathematical software.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep data analysis to derive business insights, identify gaps, and uncover new opportunities
• Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to address business problems
• Run regular A/B experiments, collect data, and perform statistical analysis
• Collaborate with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
• Improve the scalability, efficiency, and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving
• Investigate new machine-learning modeling approaches to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business

Requirements

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

Technologies

• SQL
• Python
• R
• SAS
• Matlab
• AWS QuickSight
• Tableau
• R Shiny