Want to work on one of the highest priorities across Amazon Ads? This is your chance to help build a billion dollar business, innovate on a new product space, and have a positive impact on millions of views while working with industry-leading technologies. The Ad Catalyst team in Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions to over a million advertisers with the goal of helping our our hundreds of millions customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. Our team owns researching, evaluating, ranking and serving personalized recommendation to each of our 1+ million advertisers using state of the art machine learning techniques ( e.g., deep learning, deep-reinforcement learning, causal modeling). Our team is placed centrally in the Advertising Experience organization which owns the advertising console, this provides us full-stack ownership giving scientists the satisfaction of seeing their work directly power advertiser experiences with measurable outcomes. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. This is a unique opportunity to get in early and drive significant portions of the technical roadmap and shape the research agenda of a billion+ dollar business. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, focus on customers by applying a customer-first approach, excellent teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment through both strong personal delivery and the ability to develop partnerships with science teams across the org. This is a high visibility leadership position where you will be the first principal scientist in a 400+ people org. Our position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to make a difference to our business by designing and building state of the art machine learning systems on big data, leveraging Amazon’s vast computing resources (AWS), working on exciting and challenging projects, and delivering meaningful results to customers world-wide. Key job responsibilities - Be a thought leader and forward thinker, anticipating obstacles to success, helping avoid common failure modes, and holding us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in machine learning (ML). - Own and drive the most complex and strategic solutions across the business; responsible for many millions in revenue. - Own the dialogue with partner science teams - shape consensus in scientific research roadmap, modeling approaches evaluation and presentation of the science driven results to our advertisers. - Define evaluation methods and metrics that measure the effectiveness of advertising recommendations using a variety of science techniques (Randomized Control Trials, Causal Modeling, Reinforcement learning policy evaluation) - Research, build, and deploy innovative ML solutions; working across all technical disciplines. - Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and stimulate new research directions that you will deliver on. - Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific communities. - Hire, mentor, and guide senior scientists. - Partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, Seattle
