Sr. Manager, Applied Science, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. seeks a Sr. Applied Science Manager to lead the Sponsored Products and Brands, Search Relevance team, ensuring the relevance and usefulness of product recommendations on search results.

You will define what a great search experience looks like by innovating new ways to explain why a product matches a shopper's needs. You will manage a team of scientists and engineers, partner with senior leaders, and shape strategies across Search, Retail, and Advertising to improve customer

Qualifications

• Lead the development of predictive models that identify and mitigate irrelevant, misleading, or low-quality product recommendations across search placements.
• Own the development and ongoing measurement of customer experience metrics as reported to senior leadership.
• Manage and grow a team of applied scientists, engineers, and product managers.
• Collaborate with multiple orgs to align on metrics and standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale AI-powered systems whose outputs are used to continually improve the search results.
• Expand the definition of search quality to include shopper preferences and page-level context.
• Invest in AI infrastructure to reduce cost of measuring CX metrics across placements and marketplaces.
• Invent new product experiences with intelligent image/title selection and contextual explanations.
• Lead and influence across the organization, presenting to executives.

Skills

Leadership

Applied Science

Predictive Modeling

Cross-functional Collaboration

AI/ML Systems

Education

Advanced degree in CS/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Big Data Platforms

Job description

Are you passionate about using AI to protect and elevate the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers? We're looking for a Sr. Applied Science Manager to lead the Sponsored Products and Brands, Search Relevance team, ensuring that every product recommendation shoppers see on our search results page is relevant, trustworthy, and genuinely useful. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of defining what a great search experience looks like by inventing entirely new ways to help customers understand why a product matches their needs.

Safeguard the Customer Experience

• Lead the development of predictive models that identify and mitigate irrelevant, misleading, or low-quality product recommendations across search placements
• Design and scale AI-powered systems whose outputs are used to continually improve the search results
• Expand the definition of search quality beyond query-ASIN relevance to encompass shopper preferences, page-level context, and overall experience coherence

Define and Measure Search Quality at Scale

• Own the development and ongoing measurement of customer experience metrics as reported to senior leadership
• Partner with leaders across Search, Retail, and Advertising organizations to align on metric definitions and establish independent measurement standards where needed
• Build scalable measurement frameworks that anticipate evolving search presentation formats and proactively adapt to them

Invest in State-of-the-Art AI Infrastructure

• Drive investment in AI infrastructure and systems that reduce the cost of measuring and monitoring CX metrics across all placements and marketplaces
• Build increasingly precise AI models that minimize human effort for auditing, training data generation, and placement-specific customization
• Make strategic build-vs-reuse decisions by staying closely connected to peer teams across the organization

Invent New Product Experiences

• Create novel product presentation experiences that help shoppers understand the differential value of each result — through intelligent selection of images and titles, contextual explanations, and visual indicators such as badges and tags
• Partner with peer teams to share learnings and advocate for the adoption of successful innovations beyond your immediate scope

Lead and Influence Across the Organization

• Manage and grow a team of applied scientists, engineers, and product managers
• Partner with senior leaders (Director-level and above) across multiple organizations to drive alignment on shared goals and cross-functional initiatives
• Represent search quality and customer experience in executive-level reviews and reporting cadences