Senior Lead Scientist, Ads Measurement & GenAI

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Ads' Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) organization seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the technical vision and execution for performance measurement across our advertising products. We tackle holistic impact, privacy-aware measurement, and scalable modeling across online/offline channels.

You will guide a team of scientists across ML, NLP, CV, causal inference, and generative AI, shaping roadmaps and driving production-ready research.

Responsibilities

• Driving the scientific vision of the teams in your organization and you advise and influence its technical leadership on performance measurement models and products.
• Identifying, tackling, and proposing innovative solutions to intrinsically hard, previously unsolved problems. You solve problems pragmatically, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Bringing clarity to complex problems, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, fostering shared understanding, and guiding towards effective solutions.
• Serving and being recognized by internal and external peers as a thought leader in modeled measurement in Ads. You will engage routinely with the broader scientific community, e.g. as a reviewer, program committee member, workshop organizer, or chair at peer-reviewed internal/external conferences.
• Leading by example, with your papers, analyses, and code setting the standard in your organization for scientific engineering excellence.
• Leading science and design reviews, aligning teams across your organization around coherent algorithmic strategies.
• Influencing your team’s science and business strategy by driving one or more team roadmaps contributing to the organization’s roadmap and taking responsibility for some organizational goals. You drive multiple new product features from inception to production launch.
• Guiding the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger applied science community on trends, technologies, and best practices. You drive the documentation of scientific innovation. You attract bar-raising talent from academia and industry.
• Staying abreast of academic and industry trends, knowing the state of the art, and building on top of existing solutions instead of reinventing when possible.

Job description

Amazon Ads' Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) organization seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the technical vision and execution for performance measurement across our advertising products. We tackle holistic impact, privacy-aware measurement, and scalable modeling across online/offline channels.

You will guide a team of scientists across ML, NLP, CV, causal inference, and generative AI, shaping roadmaps and driving production-ready research.