Data Scientist, Prime Video - Content Discovery and Experimentation Science

- 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
- 2+ years of data scientist experience
- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 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

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Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

We are looking for a Data Scientist that will work on modeling and metric development initiatives to shape our understanding customers' engagement with Prime Video, and help unlock new opportunities to elevate customer experiences.

Key job responsibilities
You will work closely with Scientists and Economists to develop, evaluate, and operationalize new metrics to measure the impact of our product launches on customers’ streaming needs and business outcomes. You will work on large, complex datasets to develop models which will provide data-driven insights into customers' streaming behaviors. You will identify simple and inventive approaches to increase the operational efficiency of models and metrics. You will collaborate with product leaders on deep dives whose outcomes will influence feature launch decisions.

A successful candidate for this role has excellent communication skills, especially with non-technical audiences. They are agile and capable of adapting to a fast-paced environment. They work effectively on a team of scientists, and use their technical judgment to drive meaningful discussions. They have a passion for solving customer problems, and have an excellent track-record on delivering impactful projects, simplifying their approaches where necessary. They work independently, but seek peer and stakeholder input and alignment on solution design decisions.

About the team
The Content Discovery and Experimentation Science team is a central team of Scientists and Economists that provides its expertise and leadership on online experimentation within Prime Video. The team owns metrics used to measure and protect customer and business outcomes through experiments. The team also develops models that facilitate a better understanding of customers’ needs, and works closely with Prime Video teams in identifying and valuing product opportunities that deliver new experiences for our customers.