Principal Applied Scientist, Demand Tech
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
In Demand Tech, we're revolutionizing digital advertising. Our products deliver on Amazon.com and beyond to TV, Twitch, and third-party websites. We bring advertising to brands of all sizes with rich creative experiences (images, video, text) and brand-first advertising goals.
The Response Prediction team sits at the heart of this mission. We build deep-learning models to predict consumer responses to ads that serve internet-scale traffic. Our goal is to accurately predict shopper responses to ads across a variety of devices, contexts, and marketplaces. By meticulously analyzing shopper interactions and their value, we enable the most effective ad allocation and pricing strategies, crafting advertisements that are not only relevant and engaging but also enrich the shopping experience.
Amidst rapid growth and evolving challenges, Demand Tech seeks a Principal Scientist with a deep passion for data, innovation, and the drive to explore new frontiers. This role is perfect for a leader capable of inspiring our team, pioneering deeply technical strategies, and playing a crucial role in crafting world-class advertising solutions. If you're ready to lead in a culture that prioritizes experimentation, teamwork, and ownership, join us. Together, we'll lead the advancement of brand advertising, pushing boundaries to ensure our continued success and growth.
Key job responsibilities
- Be a thought leader and forward thinker, anticipating obstacles to success, helping avoid common failure modes, and holding us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in machine learning (ML).
- Own and drive the most complex and strategic solutions across the business; responsible for many millions in revenue.
- Define evaluation methods and metrics that measures viewer experience (e.g., ad relevance) and invent scientifically sound and scalable solutions in the streaming TV context, to improve viewer experience.
- Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored TV offering and identify opportunities to grow our business via principled ML solutions.
- Research, build, and deploy innovative ML solutions; working across all technical disciplines.
- Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and stimulate new research directions that you will deliver on.
- Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific communities.
- Hire, mentor, and guide senior scientists.
- Partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions.
About the team
Sponsored TV Ads is a strategic new Amazon Ads product that is pioneering new experiences to help brands connect with millions of viewers. We are innovating on performance ads on TV. 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.
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