Senior Manager, Applied Science, Prime Video Advertising

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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, 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 and advertising? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best‑in‑class digital video experiences, and our Advertising Product & Technology organization is at the forefront of revolutionizing the streaming advertising landscape.

The Prime Video Advertising team delivers ad tech solutions that power Prime Video's rapidly growing advertising business across VOD, live streaming, and display ads—delivering value to both advertisers and viewers worldwide. We focus on critical areas including ad delivery, machine learning‑driven optimization, experimentation, audience measurement, and generative AI‑powered ad creative solutions.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Applied Science to lead a team of scientists and engineers building machine learning and AI solutions that directly impact Prime Video's advertising business. In this role, you will own the science strategy and execution for key work streams and will set the 3‑5 year scientific vision for your organization, build and develop a high‑performing team of senior scientists and managers, and drive large‑scale ML/AI initiatives that inform strategic decisions for one of the world's largest streaming advertising platforms.

You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate complex scientific capabilities into measurable business impact during a period of rapid growth with a path to $10B in advertising revenue.

• Ad Load Optimization – Balancing advertising revenue with viewer engagement through sophisticated ML models that determine optimal ad frequency, placement, and duration
• Yield Optimization – Maximizing advertising revenue through intelligent allocation, pricing, and forecasting models
• Experimentation & Metrics – Designing and scaling experimentation frameworks and causal inference methods to measure the impact of advertising decisions on both business outcomes and customer experience
• Ad Creative Generation & Augmentation – Leveraging generative AI to create, personalize, and enhance ad creatives at scale

• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field
• Experience as a science manager, with demonstrated experience managing other managers or leading science teams through senior leaders
• Extensive track record of solving complex business problems with machine learning, deep learning, and ML engineering at scale
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and manage a high‑performing applied science organization, including growing future science leaders
• Experience delivering a scientific vision with a path to execution, including managing strategic research projects spanning multiple years
• Strong technical depth in machine learning with the ability to evaluate and guide work across optimization, causal inference, NLP/generative AI, and recommendation systems
• Experience driving large‑scale scientific efforts and making trade‑offs between opportunity, resources, and business impact

• Experience in advertising technology, ad marketplaces, or revenue optimization domains
• Experience building and deploying large‑scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale, particularly in real‑time bidding, auction optimization, or content personalization
• Experience with generative AI / large language models applied to creative generation, content augmentation, or personalization
• Track record of managing…