Amazon

Sr. Data Scientist, Prime Video

Amazon$159K — $215K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
  • 4+ years experience as a data scientist
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • Experience utilizing statistical models, such as multinomial logistic regression

Responsibilities

  • Use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to derive insights from large-scale data sets
  • Design and implement comprehensive data science workflows
  • Support data analyses by creating datasets for reporting and ML applications
  • Collaborate with product stakeholders to identify strategic data opportunities
  • Communicate data findings and recommendations to diverse audiences
  • Stay updated on data science tools and advocate for best practices

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and EAP
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
The Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team matches customers with the right content at the right time, at all touch points throughout the content discovery journey. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Data Scientist to help build new data-driven frameworks to understand what makes new personalization and content discovery innovations successful for users and the business. You'll be part of an embedded science team on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and ultimately influence what millions of customers around the world see when the log into Prime Video.

The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact. You will build cross-functional support within Prime Video, assess business problems, define metrics, and support iterative scientific solutions that balance short-term delivery with long-term science roadmaps.

Key job responsibilities

- Use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to extract insights from complex, large-scale data sets

- Design and implement end-to-end data science workflows, from data acquisition and cleaning to model development, testing, and deployment

- Support scalable, self-service data analyses by building datasets for analytics, reporting and ML use cases

- Partner with product stakeholders and senior science peers to identify strategic data-driven opportunities to improve the customer experience

- Communicate findings, conclusions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Stay up-to-date on the latest data science tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

- 4+ years of data scientist experience

- Bachelor's degree

- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience

- Experience managing data pipelines

- Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually

About Amazon

Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment , on the Internet. They provide premium spoken audio content, such as audio versions of books and newspapers and radio programs, that is delivered over the Internet and played back on personal computers and hand-held electronic devices. The Audible service allows consumers to purchase and download their content from their Website, store it in digital files and play it back on personal computers and electronic devices. More than 15,000 hours of audio content are available on their Web site, including audio versions of books, periodicals and radio programs. Several manufacturers have agreed to support and promote the playback of their content on their hand-held audio-enabled electronic devices.

Amazon Careers

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