Are you passionate about leveraging data to deliver actionable insights that impact daily marketing activities at Amazon? The Customer Targeting team in Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our team to develop models for optimizing the performance of Amazon’s marketing initiatives across channels and advertising formats. You have experience applying modern machine learning methods to answer key business questions, make strategic and tactical recommendations for change, and work with business leaders to drive these to production. You are entrepreneurial and able to work in a highly collaborative environment.
This role requires an individual with strong quantitative modeling skills and experience using statistical methods. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
You will be expected to:
- Leverage knowledge of statistics and optimization to frame decision-making problems for determining marketing spends across channels.
- Predict future customer behavior and business conditions through machine learning and predictive modeling.
- Use analytical and predictive techniques to build models for optimizing targeting.
- Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions.
