Data Scientist, Amazon Ads

- 3+ years of data scientist experience
- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
- Familiarity with the digital advertising ecosystem, including programmatic advertising, ad serving technologies, creative formats, and metrics used to evaluate advertising effectiveness

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to drive innovation in our Creative Intelligence (CI) program. In this individual contributor role, you will apply advanced machine learning techniques to improve advertiser creative performance and customer experience.

Key job responsibilities
As a Data Scientist on this team, you will:
1. Develop and drive the science strategy for the Creative Intelligence (CI) program, aligning it with the program's objectives and overall business goals.
2. Identify high-impact opportunities within the CI program and lead the ideation, planning, and execution of science initiatives to address them.
3. Build and deploy machine learning models using computer vision, natural language processing, and deep learning to analyze and enhance ad effectiveness.
4. Develop algorithms that extract meaningful signals from image, video, and audio content to predict and improve customer engagement
5. Leverage Amazon's extensive data repository to create predictive models that generate actionable recommendations for more compelling ad creative
6. Collaborate with business leaders and cross-functional teams to implement ML-powered solutions
7. Contribute to the ML roadmap for the CI program through innovation and research.

About the team
The Creative Intelligence team at Amazon Advertising is dedicated to revolutionizing how ads are created, evaluated, and optimized through the power of machine learning. Our mission is to build products that infuse creative decisions with data-driven insights to enhance customer experience and engagement.

We develop sophisticated ML models that analyze creative content to improve both customer experience and advertising performance.

Our AI-powered systems analyze multiple dimensions of ad creative, including visual quality, product presentation, and brand messaging to predict an advertisement's effectiveness, enabling us to:

1) Help ad systems automatically select the most effective advertisements to show customers
2) Provide advertisers with actionable insights to improve their creative content
3) Ensure ads clearly demonstrate products, create relatable scenarios, and help customers make informed purchase decisions

By leveraging our expertise in creative best practices and customer insights, we maintain the delicate balance between advertising effectiveness and customer experience - ensuring that millions of customers see relevant, high-quality ads while helping advertisers maximize their creative impact.