Applied Science Manager, Amazon Digital Advertising

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Amazon Advertising seeks a leader to guide a team of scientists measuring real-world impact of Amazon’s marketing at billions in scale. You will drive cross-functional initiatives, apply ML and causal inference, and deliver insights that improve Amazon’s marketing and tools for external advertisers.

This growth role prioritizes building high-performing teams, strategic direction, and scalable measurement systems using petabyte-scale data.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with substantial research experience.
• 6+ years of applied research in ML or related field.
• 3+ years leading scientists or ML engineers.
• 4+ years building ML models for business use.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and mentor a science team focused on causal inference and ML.
• Set technical vision and roadmap for measurement and modeling initiatives.
• Partner with leadership to translate business needs into science roadmaps.
• Guide development and productionization of prototype models.
• Drive large-scale online experiments to validate impact.
• Foster cross-team collaboration and publish internal/external research.
• Establish scalable processes for model development and deployment.

Skills

Machine learning

NLP

Information retrieval

Analytics

Leadership

Education

PhD or Master’s degree

6+ years applied research

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Lead a team of scientists who measure what matters—the real-world impact of Amazon’s marketing at billion-dollar scale. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon’s fastest growing lines of business and our team occupies a unique position focused on maximizing the success of Amazon’s own marketing programs using our ad tech. Amazon marketing is Customer Zero for our ad tech, and our measurement science team is focused on quantifying the impact of the marketing that drives customers to discover and engage with Amazon’s products and services. We turn petabytes of retail, streaming, and customer signals into causal insights that make Amazon’s marketing spend smarter and more effective. As Customer Zero, we also extend the impact of methodologies, measurement systems, and insights we generate for Amazon’s marketing to directly inform the products and services we offer to external advertisers, shaping the tools that power the broader Amazon Ads ecosystem. This is a growth role for a successful candidate that is energized by building high-performing teams, tackling causal inference challenges that don’t have textbook answers, and shipping science that improves both Amazon’s own marketing and the advertising products used by the world’s largest brands.

Dozens of Amazon businesses use Amazon’s ad tech for their marketing objectives, driving more than $1B of marketing investments through Ads services and tools. As part of our team, this role will lead a cross-functional science team to measure the impact of Amazon’s marketing and identify opportunities for optimization at scale. You will set the strategic direction for your team, drive initiatives to make smarter marketing decisions, and improve the relevance of advertising to our customers. We move away from industry standard measurement systems and build sophisticated and insightful decision engines. We enable massive advertising programs, generating billions of impressions decorated with rich representations of customer state. The major challenges we are solving include integrating petabyte-scale distributed retail systems into a singular service to synthesize e-commerce data into measurement and optimization models. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in ML and causal inference, experience with large scale data ML models, high judgment to drive business impact, an appreciation for white-space, and success building and developing high-performing teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a team of scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, scientific rigor, and operational excellence.
• Set the technical vision and roadmap for the team’s measurement and modeling initiatives, aligning with business priorities.
• Partner with senior leadership to define measurement strategies and translate business needs into science roadmaps and deliverables.
• Guide the team in applying ML, statistics, and econometrics to develop, analyze, and productionize prototype models.
• Drive the design and analysis of large-scale online experiments to validate models and measure impact.
• Foster collaboration across science teams through peer-review processes, publishing research internally and at industry conferences.
• Establish scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale model development, validation, and implementation.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• 4+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application 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
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Domain expertise in quantitative marketing or advertising measurement.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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