Data Scientist, Amazon
ADE Analytics
CA$85.2-142.3k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
CA$85.2-142.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about redefining how AI can improves everyone's daily life, we’d love to hear from you
- 1+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 2+ years of data/research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst in an internet-based company with complex and big data sources experience
- 1+ years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers, or educational content experience
- Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
Desirable
- Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
- Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
- Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)
- Experience working with or evaluating AI systems
- Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist on our team, you'll work with complex data, develop statistical methodologies, and provide critical product insights that shape how we build and optimize our solutions
- You will work closely with your Analytics and Applied Science teammates
- You will build frameworks and mechanisms to scale data solutions across our organization
- Analyze complex data to identify patterns, inform product decisions, and understand root causes of anomalies
- Develop analysis and modeling approaches to drive product and engineering actions to identify patterns, insights, and understand root causes of anomalies. Your solutions directly improve the customer experience
- Independently work with product partners to identify problems and opportunities. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools to solve these problems. Use data driven insights to inform product development. Work with cross-disciplinary teams to mechanize your solution into scalable and automated frameworks
- Build data pipelines, and identify novel data sources to leverage in analytical work - both from within Alexa and from cross Amazon
- Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries
- Excel at communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
- Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Work with stakeholders to translate causal insights into actionable recommendations
- Force multiply the work of the team with data visualizations, presentations, and/or dashboards to drive awareness and adoption of data assets and product insights
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams. Mentor teammates to foster a culture of continuous learning and development
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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