Head of GenAI for Creative Understanding

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking a science leader to own Creative Understanding end to end, directly leading a team of applied scientists while expanding across quality assessment, safety and moderation, evaluation and benchmarking, metadata and attribute extraction, brand and logo detection, and content similarity and retrieval.

You will set the scientific direction for measuring and safeguarding creative quality at scale, balancing long-term research with production delivery, and shaping the

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience leading applied science or ML teams.
• 7+ years experience in computer vision, multimodal understanding, or content moderation and trust/safety.
• Experience delivering production ML models for content understanding, quality assessment, or safety/moderation.
• PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the scientific direction for creative quality assessment, content moderation, safety and evaluation across multimodal understanding.
• Directly lead a team of applied scientists and managers as the portfolio grows.
• Drive end-to-end applied science programs with high ambiguity, scale and complexity and be accountable for models in production.
• Define how we measure creative quality, safety, and brand compliance and build benchmarks and metrics for the organization.
• Research and apply advanced CV, vision-language models and multimodal understanding techniques for quality, safety, and metadata extraction.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow high‑performing scientists and managers, raising the hiring bar.
• Establish team mechanisms for planning, design reviews, and cross‑functional partnerships with product and engineering.

Skills

Leadership of ML teams

Computer vision

Multimodal understanding

Production ML systems

Content moderation & safety

Education

PhD or MS in CS/CE/ML

Advanced degree in CS/Math/Statistics

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking a science leader to own Creative Understanding end to end, directly leading a team of applied scientists while expanding across quality assessment, safety and moderation, evaluation and benchmarking, metadata and attribute extraction, brand and logo detection, and content similarity and retrieval.

You will set the scientific direction for measuring and safeguarding creative quality at scale, balancing long-term research with production delivery, and shaping the