Applied Science Manager

2 months ago

Seattle, Washington, United States Amazon Full time

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising tools within Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands that drive discovery and advertiser growth. Our brand understanding products are strategically important to our advertisers, helping them propel long term growth across retail and marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions and clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class brand intelligence models and products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

Within Sponsored Ads Advertiser Growth organization, the Brand Intelligence team is on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands, thereby making shopping delightful, and a personalized experience. Our team builds the central brand understanding foundation for Amazon ads and beyond. We focus on enabling brands to align customers' shopping intent and position its unique value proposition via Amazon Ads. We provide large-scale offline and online brand understanding data services, powered by cutting edge Machine Learning technologies (e.g., Large-Language-Model, Multi-Modal Deep Neural Networks, Statistical Modeling).

We are looking for a passionate and visionary leader to lead a cross functional team Applied Scientist, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers and Machine Learning engineers. You will,


• Lead science and engineering strategy and roadmap to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware Brand Understanding.


• Develop and manage a research agenda that balances short term deliverables with measurable business impact as well as long term investments.


• Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment


• Advance the team's engineering backbone and drive continued scientific innovation as a thought leader and practitioner.


• Foster cross-team collaboration to execute complex projects, drive alignment across organizations for science, engineering and product strategy to achieve business goals.


• Perform hands-on data analysis, build machine-learning models, run regular A/B tests, and communicate the impact to senior management.


• Collaborate with business and software teams across Amazon Ads.


• Stay up to date with recent scientific publications relevant to the team.


• Provide technical and scientific guidance to team members.


• Hire and develop top talent, provide technical and career development guidance to scientists and engineers within and across the organization.

Basic Qualifications

  • 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 Qualifications

  • Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $165,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $286,000/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


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