Data Scientist, Prime Video

Amazon Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading streaming service provider is seeking a Data Scientist to enhance marketing strategies by developing scalable models and analyzing customer engagement on Prime Video. The candidate will work with large datasets and cross-functional teams, contributing to innovative marketing insights. Required skills include data scripting in SQL, Python, or R and experience with statistical packages. This role offers a collaborative environment focused on data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with data scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience in an internet-based company with complex data.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop causal marketing measurement models.
• Analyze experiments related to Prime Video engagement.
• Create mechanisms to deploy complex models.

Skills

Data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R)

Data/research scientist experience

Knowledge of statistical packages

Clustered data processing experience

Job description

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. Prime Video is a fast‑paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.

The Video Content Research team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. We are seeking a Data Scientist to develop scalable models that uncover key insights into how, why and when customers engage with Prime Video marketing.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will work closely with business stakeholders and technical peers (data scientists, economists and engineers) to develop causal marketing measurement models, analyze experiments and investigate customer, marketing and content related factors that drive engagement with Prime Video. You will create mechanisms and infrastructure to deploy complex models and generate insights at scale. You will have the opportunity to work with large datasets, work with AWS to build and deploy machine learning models that impact Prime Video's marketing decisions.

About the team

The Video Content Research team uses machine learning, econometrics, and data science to optimize Amazon's marketing and content investments. We generate insights for Amazon's digital video strategy, partnering with finance, marketing, and content teams. We analyze customer behavior on Prime Video (marketing impressions, clicks on owned channels) to identify optimization opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience with data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, or equivalent) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, or equivalent)
• Experience as a data/research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst in an internet‑based company with complex and big data sources
• Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S‑PLUS, or R
• Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map‑reduce, and Hive)

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