Responsibilities

• lead a team of scientists, setting the technical vision and science roadmap for ads impact measurement and optimization.
• design experiments that identify the causal mechanisms through which advertising drives shopper engagement, advertiser value, and marketplace outcomes.
• develop optimization algorithms that integrate these causal signals into production and business decision-making, in close partnership with engineering and product teams across the organization.
• lead the research and communicate findings and recommendations to senior leadership through written narratives that connect technical science to business strategy.
• hire and develop future science leaders, think strategically, set ambitious roadmaps in highly ambiguous problem spaces, and foster a culture that values both intellectual depth and production impact.
• work cross-functionally, influencing across organizational boundaries to drive alignment on complex, multi-sided tradeoffs.

Requirements

• 4+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Preferred

• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
• Experience in causal modeling like graphical models, causal Bayesian network, potential outcomes, A/B testing, experiments, quasi-experiments, and data science workflows

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.