Data Scientist, Amazon Devices, Devices Sales & Marketing

Description

The candidate in this role will own delivery of science products and solutions to help Amazon Devices Sales and Marketing org. make better decisions: product recommendations to customers, segmentation, financial incrementality of marketing initiatives, A/B testing etc.

The Amazon Devices organization designs, produces and markets Echo Speakers, Kindle e‑readers, Fire Tablets, Fire TV Streaming Media Players, Ring and Blink Smart Home & Security products. We are constantly looking to innovate on behalf of customers with new devices in existing or new categories or improving customer experience on existing platforms. The Devices Data Services (DDS) team provides Data Science, Analytics and Engineering support to the broader organization to enable Sales and Marketing activities across all these product lines.

We are looking for an innovative, hands‑on and customer‑obsessed Data Scientist who can be a strategic partner to the product managers and engineers on the team. Our projects span multiple organizations and require coordination of experimentation, economic and causal analysis, and building predictive machine learning models. A successful candidate will be a problem solver who enjoys diving into data, is excited by difficult modeling challenges, is motivated to build something that will eventually become a production software system, and possesses strong communication skills to effectively interface between technical and business teams.

• Implement statistical or machine learning methods to solve specific business problems.
• Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine‑tuning model parameters.
• Directly contribute to development of modern automated recommendation systems
• Build customer‑facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics to track model performance and explain variance
• Collaborate with researchers, software developers, and business leaders to define product requirements, provide analytical support, and communicate feedback

You will work with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and marketers to develop new products that benefit our customers and help us reach our business goals. You will own solutions from end to end: conceptualization, prioritization, development, delivery, and productionalization.

We are a full stack science team that empowers product, marketing, and other business leaders to better understand customers who use Amazon devices, make decisions on product development or optimization, and measure the effectiveness of their efforts against our customer’s expectation. Our focus area is to build analytical frameworks that help the organization either access data, better understand the decisions customers are making and why, or assess customer satisfaction.

• 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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USA, WA, Bellevue -  -  USD annually