Data Scientist

Data Scientist on the DISCO M&G team within Amazon Music, based in Culver City, California (onsite). The role centers on analyzing large-scale data, developing models and algorithms, and guiding identity, acquisition, and retention strategies across marketing, product, and engineering.

• Lead the research and development of models and science products that drive identity, acquisition, and retention initiatives for Amazon Music.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Growth leadership to craft science-driven business strategies, including subscriber segmentation, lifecycle management, and upsell programs.
• Develop predictive models such as propensity, uplift, and causal inference to support targeted marketing, quantify incremental impact, and automate analyses of key metric variances.
• Work with product, engineering, and marketing teams to assess the impact of growth campaigns, features, and algorithmic interventions through rigorous experimentation.
• Examine experiment results and provide data-driven recommendations to optimize subscriber acquisition and retention.
• Collaborate with senior data scientists and product managers to define, propose, and validate success and guardrail metrics for identity and growth initiatives.
• Educate marketing and growth teams on analytics, measurement frameworks, and experimentation best practices to foster evidence-based decision making.

• Minimum of two years of experience as a data scientist.
• More than three years of experience with data querying languages (eg SQL), scripting languages (eg Python), or statistical/mathematical software (eg R, SAS, Matlab).
• Over three years of experience with machine learning and statistical modeling tools and techniques, including understanding factors that affect performance.
• At least one year of experience working with or evaluating AI systems.
• Experience applying theoretical models in real-world, applied environments.
• Bachelor's Degree with five or more years of relevant experience, or a Master's Degree with two or more years of relevant experience.

• SQL
• Python
• R
• SAS
• Matlab
• Perl

Annual salary range: USD 136, per year.

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance, option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

The DISCO team focuses on accelerating Amazon Music customer growth by empowering product teams to make sound, customer-centric decisions through data and insights. We build data pipelines, self-service analytics, insights and predictive models enabling acquisition, engagement and retention at scale with personalized customer touchpoints.