Applied Science Manager, Stores-Ads Science

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 183,800 - 248,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is looking for an Applied Science Manager for their Stores-Ads Science team. This role focuses on understanding and optimizing advertising's impact on shopper engagement through scientific research and machine learning.

The ideal candidate will lead a team, setting the vision and strategy, and conduct causal experiments. A strong background in applied research, management experience, and expertise in machine learning is required.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $183,800 to $248,700 annually and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing scientists or machine learning engineers.
• 3+ years of experience building ML models for business applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of scientists to set the technical vision for ads impact measurement.
• Design experiments to identify causal mechanisms affecting shopper engagement.
• Develop algorithms that integrate causal signals into business decision-making.

Skills

Applied research experience

Management experience for scientists or ML engineers

Building machine learning models

Programming in Java, C++, or Python

Education

PhD or Master's degree with 6+ years of research experience

Tools

Machine Learning frameworks

NLP tools

Job description

Applied Science Manager, Stores-Ads Science

Job ID: 10453249 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon's Stores-Ads Science team operates at the intersection of Amazon's Stores and advertising businesses. We develop causal measurement systems, optimization algorithms, and machine learning models that inform how advertising affects shopper engagement, driving selling partner growth and marketplace economics. Our science shapes decisions both at the strategic level and in production systems. We are a team of interdisciplinary scientists who combine causal inference, economic modeling, and machine learning to drive measurable business impact.

We are looking for an Applied Science Manager to lead our Ads Impact initiative. This team owns the science of understanding and optimizing how advertising creates value for shoppers and selling partners. What makes this role distinctive is its position at the frontier of AI and Economics: as Amazon's shopping experience evolves from traditional search toward LLM-powered, agentic commerce, the fundamental mechanisms through which advertising creates value are changing. This role will partner with leading scientists and academic researchers to measure these effects through large-scale causal experimentation, and develop novel methods to encode causal and economic reasoning into AI systems that optimize the shopping experience.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead a team of scientists, setting the technical vision and science roadmap for ads impact measurement and optimization. You will design experiments that identify the causal mechanisms through which advertising drives shopper engagement, advertiser value, and marketplace outcomes. You will 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. You will lead the research and communicate findings and recommendations to senior leadership through written narratives that connect technical science to business strategy. This role requires deep expertise in causal inference and experimental design, combined with strong applied ML skills and the engineering judgment to translate research into production systems. You will 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. You will work cross-functionally, influencing across organizational boundaries to drive alignment on complex, multi-sided tradeoffs.

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 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

Location

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually

Posted

Posted: June 12, 2026 (Updated 1 day ago)

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Compensation & Benefits

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.