Sr. Data Scientist, Amazon Private Brands

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 197,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company is seeking a Sr. Data Scientist for its Private Brands division in Vancouver. You will invent prototype solutions, guide team scientific research, and significantly impact business and customer outcomes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data querying, statistical models, and a strong background in data science. The position offers a competitive salary, ranging from $143,200 to $239,100 annually, and includes comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with data querying languages and statistical/mathematical software.
• 4+ years of experience as a data scientist.
• Experience with statistical models.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to frame ambiguous business problems as science problems.
• Invent novel science solutions and deploy production software.
• Review and guide science solutions across the team.

Skills

Data querying languages (e.g. SQL)

Scripting languages (e.g. Python)

Statistical models (e.g. multinomial logistic regression)

Tools

AWS QuickSight

Tableau

R Shiny

Job description

Sr. Data Scientist, Amazon Private Brands

Join our Amazon Private Brands Core Tech organization in building science and tech solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, and by Amazon.

The CoreTech team's areas of focus include data management and analytics, development of central services, and Agentic development. Core Tech delivers standardized solutions across multiple teams, reducing redundant work and accelerating scaling and production.

A key aspect of Core Tech's role is its focus on prototype development and innovation. The team builds and tests prototype solutions that serve as blueprints for other teams to scale.

As a Sr. Data Scientist you will invent novel solutions and prototypes, and directly contribute to bringing your ideas to life through production implementation.

Current research areas include entity resolution, agentic AI, large language models, and product substitutes.

You will review and guide scientists across the team on their designs and implementations, and raise the team bar for science research and prototypes.

This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to develop ambitious science solutions and have direct business and customer impact.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to deeply understand APB business problems and frame ambiguous business problems as science problems and solutions.
• Invent novel science solutions, develop prototypes, and deploy production software to solve business problems.
• Review and guide science solutions across the team.
• Publish and socialize your and the team's research across Amazon and external avenues as appropriate.
• Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience
• Experience managing data pipelines
• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team

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The base salary for this position ranges from $143,200/year up to $239,100/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.