Research Scientist, Alexa Devices & Marketing

Seattle, WA (On-site)

$136K/yr – $184K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead research for Alexa Customer Science to uncover actionable customer insights that guide product and marketing decisions.

  • Own end-to-end research programs—from topic selection to communicating actionable insights across product, marketing, and data teams.
  • Must-have: PhD or Master’s degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
  • Standout: Synthesis of diverse data types and scalable measurement systems for product iteration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product and marketing teams, as well as fellow researchers, to identify research topics and build a research roadmap; communicate and refresh on a regular basis to ensure relevancy.
  • Create a deep understanding of customers through descriptive, inferential, and experimental approaches (existing or invented) that you identify as being most effective for answering a given business question.
  • Design, implement, and analyze data from surveys, randomized experiments, and other large-n data sets.
  • Work with data engineering and business intelligence teams to triangulate survey data with customer engagement and segmentation data.
  • Create repeatable and scalable mechanisms to measure key customer metrics that drive product iteration.
  • Synthesize a wide range of primary and secondary data types leading to focused, insightful, and actionable insights that persuade and inspire partners and leaders to take concerted, informed actions.
  • Work closely with research peers to promote best practices, build resources, and train team members to enable them to execute their own research projects.

Requirements

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
  • Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
  • Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets

Preferred

  • Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
  • Experience with agile development
  • Experience building web based dashboards using common frameworks
  • Experience with AI/ML technologies

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
  • parential leave
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