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Amazon Sr. Research Scientist, Seller Growth Science in Seattle, Washington
Description
Join us in the evolution of Amazon’s Seller business! The Selling Partner Recruitment and Success organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business, product, and engineering, we catalyze SP growth with comprehensive and accurate data, unique insights, and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential by using our scaled, automated, and self-service tools.
We aim to accelerate the growth of Sellers by providing tools and insights that enable them to make better and faster decisions at each step of selection management. To accomplish this, we offer intelligent insights that are both detailed and actionable, allowing Sellers to introduce new products and engage with customers effectively. We leverage extensive structured and unstructured data to generate science-based insights about their business. Furthermore, we provide personalized recommendations tailored to individual Sellers' business objectives in a user-friendly format. These insights and recommendations are integrated into our products, including Amazon Brand Analytics (ABA), Product Opportunity Explorer (OX), and Manage Your Growth (MYG).
We are looking for a talented and passionate Sr. Research Scientist to lead our research endeavors and develop world-class statistical and machine learning models. The successful candidate will work closely with Product Managers (PM), User Experience (UX) designers, engineering teams, and Seller Growth Consulting teams to provide actionable insights that drive improvements in Seller businesses.
Key job responsibilities
You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.
Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility.
You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.
You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.
About the team
The Seller Growth science team aims to provide data and science solutions to drive Seller growth and create better Seller experiences. We structure our science domain with three key themes and two horizontal components. We discover the opportunity space by identifying opportunities with unrealized potential, then generate actionable analytics to identify high value actions (HVAs) that unlock the opportunity space, and finally, empower Sellers with personalized Growth Plans and differentiated treatment that help them realize their potential.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of quantitative field research experience
Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.
Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers
Preferred Qualifications
Experience converting research studies into tangible real-world changes
Experience with discrete and continuous optimization methodologies and algorithms
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/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.