Manager, Data Science, Outbound Communications

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Machine Learning Science

Manager for a Data Science team focused on optimizing outbound communications for millions of customers using AI/ML, including LLMs and RL. The role involves leading the development of personalized messaging strategies, designing experiments, building propensity models, driving AI transformation in data accuracy and reporting, and owning financial planning frameworks. It also includes hiring, mentoring, and cross-functional partnership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Optimize Outbound's inbox management and planning system to personalize frequency, send-time and relevance bar of our messages to customers.
  2. Design and execute large-scale experiments such as multi-arm elasticity tests or RCTs to measure and improve incrementality/performance of our models.
  3. Drive development of HVA propensity models (opt-out, purchase, etc.) to drive intended behavior of customers to their next stage of shopping and engagement with Amazon.
  4. Drive AI-based transformation in data accuracy and reporting: migrating and enhancing the self-serve analytics capabilities developed by the team, automating WBR preparation, building anomaly detection, etc.
  5. Own financial planning frameworks for outbound performance including QxG/HVE forecasting and ROI measurement for paid channel investments.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of building quantitative solutions as a scientist or science manager experience
  • 2+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
  • 5+ years of applying statistical models for large-scale application and building automated analytical systems experience
  • Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
  • Knowledge of Python or R or other scripting language

Nice to have

  • Experience in a least one area of Machine Learning (NLP, Regression, Classification, Clustering, or Anomaly Detection)
  • Experience with fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect and remove bias in ML/AI systems

What the JD emphasized

  • lead the development of scalable/robust advanced AI based methods like LLMs and RL
  • lead the insights arm to build highly accurate and world-class self-service analytics solutions
  • lead applied scientists, data scientists and business intelligence engineers
  • productionize solutions at scale
  • prioritizing across multiple competing priorities using high judgement decisions

Other signals

  • LLMs
  • RL
  • personalization
  • experiments
  • analytics