Want to work on building a Amazon Ads billion dollar business, innovate on a new product, and have a positive impact on millions of views while working with industry-leading technologies? We're growing an team to support the Sponsored Ads business that powers the advertising experience for millions of viewers and advertisers daily.
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are constantly challenging ourselves to create world-class products and an unparalleled shopping experience for our hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
- Translating business questions and concerns into specific analytical questions that can be answered with available data using statistical and machine learning methods; working with engineers to produce the required data when it is not available
- Presenting critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answer questions about the inputs and outputs of Forecasting systems and improving their performance
- Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations
- Improving upon existing statistical or machine learning methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, running computational experiments, and fine-tuning model parameters for improving ad performance such as new ad sourcing models or ad optimization model
- Supporting decisions by providing requirements to develop analytic capabilities, platforms, pipelines and metrics then using them to analyze trends and find root causes of ad performance issues
- Formalizing assumptions about how forecasts are expected to behave, creating definitions of outliers, developing methods to systematically identify these outliers, and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes for them
- Utilizing code (Python, R, Scala, SQL etc.) for w2 data and building statistical and machine learning models and algorithms
About the team
Sponsored TV Ads is a new and critical Ads program that is pioneering new experiences to help brands (sellers, vendors, influencers) connect with millions of viewers. We are innovating on TV, creatives, supply and performance. If you’re interested in joining a new and rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. We also strive to be a diverse and inclusive team and value work life balance.
