Calling all inventors to work on exciting new opportunities in Sponsored Products. Amazon is building a world class advertising business and defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grows incremental sales of their products sold on Amazon through native advertising. SP achieves this by using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.
You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across Amazon stores worldwide. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
Key job responsibilities
- Tackle and solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon.
- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.
- Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions.
- Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization using deep learning methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
- Recruit Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.
