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Who are we?
Do you want to build Amazon's next $100B business? We're not just joining the shipping industry-we're transforming how billions of packages move across the world every year. Through evolving Amazon's controlled, predictable fulfillment network into a dynamic, adaptive shipping powerhouse we are building an intelligent system that optimizes in real-time to deliver on the promises businesses make to their customers.
Our mission goes beyond moving boxes-we're spinning a flywheel where every new package makes our network stronger, faster, and more efficient. As we increase density and scale, we're revolutionizing shipping for businesses while simultaneously strengthening Amazon's own delivery capabilities, driving down costs and increasing speed for our entire ecosystem.
What will you do?
Amazon shipping is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong pricing and machine learning skills to work in an embedded team, partnering closely with commercial, product and tech. This person will be responsible for developing demand prediction models for Amazon shipping's spot pricing system. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of a science team responsible for improving price discovery across Amazon shipping, measuring the impact of model implementation, and defining a roadmap for improvements and expansion of the models into new unique use cases. This person will be collaborating closely with business and software teams to research, innovate, and solve high impact economics problems facing the worldwide Amazon shipping business.
Who are you?
The ideal candidate is analytical, resourceful, curious and team oriented, with clear communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders. You should be a strong owner, are right a lot, and have a proven track record of taking on end-to-end ownership of and successfully delivering complex projects in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment. As this position involves regular interaction with senior leadership (director+), you need to be comfortable communicating at that level while also working directly with various functional teams.
Key job responsibilities
* Combine ML methodologies with fundamental economics principles to create new pricing algorithms.
* Automate price exploration through automated experimentation methodologies, for example using multi-armed bandit strategies.
* Partner with other scientists to dynamically predict prices to maximize capacity utilization.
* Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and software developers to incorporate models into production processes and influence senior leaders.
* Educate non-technical business leaders on complex modeling concepts, and explain modeling results, implications, and performance in an accessible manner.
* Independently identify and pursue new opportunities to leverage economic insights
* Opportunity to expand into other domains such as causal analytics, optimization and simulation.
About the team
Amazon Shipping's pricing team empowers our global business to find strategic harmony between growth and profit tradeoffs, while seeking long term customer value and financial viability. Our people and systems help identify and drive synergy between demand, operational, and economic planning. The breadth of our problems range from CEO-level strategic support to in-depth mathematical experimentation and optimization. Excited by the intersection of data and large scale strategic decision-making? This is the team for you!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
- 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
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science, or Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of professional or military experience
- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience
- Experience managing data pipelines
- Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
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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, Bellevue - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually