Data Scientist, Amazon
Amazon Music, DISCO
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Master's degree in computer science, math, engineering, physics, economics or similar fields, or equivalent work experience
- Data Scientist experience
- Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL, Hadoop/Hive)
- Experience with machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Desirable
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
What the job involves
- The Data, Insights, Science and Optimization, Music Product and Tech (DISCO MPT) team is looking for a Data Scientist to join a team of scientists and engineers who analyze big data, provide analytics and insights and build models and algorithms to power Music product experiences
- In this role, you will set the science vision and direction for the team and collaborate with internal stakeholders across product, science and finance to scale and advance our science offerings
- You will lead large scale science solutions, prioritize across multiple stakeholders and projects and be part of a fast-paced, dynamic and fun environment
- Lead the research and development of models and science products powering personalized recommendations
- Partner with product leaders at Amazon Music to develop science-driven business strategies
- Partner with science, marketing and product teams across Amazon Entertainment and subscription businesses
- Educate internal teams on analytics, insights and measurement
- Develop models to determine drivers of key performance metrics, and automate the process of deep diving into variances
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to evaluate the impact of new features or algorithms (e.g. , the Playlist Song Recommendation experiments)
- Analyze the results of experiments and provide recommendations to optimize solutions
- Partner with Senior Data Scientists to analyze and propose success and guardrail metrics
- Encourage the use of experimentation and advanced analytics across the organization
- The DISCO team focuses on accelerating Amazon Music customer growth by empowering product teams to make sound, customer-centric decisions through data and insights
- We build data pipelines, self-service analytics, insights and predictive models enabling acquisition, engagement and retention at scale with personalized customer touchpoints
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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