Data Scientist III - Amzn9674163

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Boston, MA · Corporate Operations

This role focuses on owning the data science elements of various products, including data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and tracking. The Data Scientist III will work with product managers to drive product design and build planning, translate business problems into data requirements, and initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects. Responsibilities include owning analysis, modeling, system design, and development of data science solutions, as well as communicating results to the business and bridging uncertainty in problem definition and solution approaches. The role requires building statistical and machine learning models using large datasets and scripting languages like Python or Java.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking.
  2. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product.
  3. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning.
  4. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics.
  5. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables.

Skills

Required

  • Statistics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Economics
  • Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • building statistical models
  • machine learning models
  • large datasets
  • Python
  • Java

Nice to have

  • product managers
  • Technical Product Managers
  • data requirements
  • metrics
  • scientific analysis
  • system design
  • data science solutions
  • model/analysis results
  • problem definition
  • data scientific solution approaches
  • business strategy

What the JD emphasized

  • building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources
  • building complex data analyses by leveraging scripting languages including Python, Java, or related scripting language

Other signals

  • data-based decision making
  • product performance optimization
  • product performance tracking
  • data requirements and metrics
  • scientific analysis projects
  • analysis, modelling, system design
  • data science solutions
  • model/analysis results
  • problem definition
  • data scientific solution approaches
  • data, metrics, and analysis
  • statistical models and machine learning models
  • large datasets
  • complex data analyses
  • scripting languages including Python, Java