Principal Data Scientist, Prime Video

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Applied Science

Principal Data Scientist for Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team, focusing on developing next-generation measurement and experimentation systems to influence customer content discovery. Requires experience in building large-scale experiment-based measurement systems, strong stakeholder communication, and balancing technical rigor with delivery speed.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the multi-year vision for experiment-based measurement systems within Prime Video
  2. Partner with product stakeholders and science peers to identify strategic data-driven opportunities to improve the customer experience
  3. Communicate findings, conclusions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical business leaders across Prime Video
  4. Educate senior leaders about and advocate for high-quality measurement as an input to data-driven decisions
  5. Mentor junior scientists and review technical artifacts to ensure quality

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors' degree in Statistics, Applied Math, Operations Research, Economics, or a related quantitative field
  • 11+ years of data scientist experience
  • Competency in data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
  • Experience with statistical models (e.g., logistic regression. supervised learning approaches)
  • Experience with online experimentation systems

Nice to have

  • Masters Degree in Data Science or related field
  • Experience designing and building large-scale online measurement systems
  • Experience establishing Bayesian decision frameworks for business decisions
  • Excellent communications with non-technical executive audiences

What the JD emphasized

  • develop next-gen measurement and experimentation systems
  • customer-focused
  • solutions-oriented
  • experiment-based measurement systems at scale
  • stakeholder communication skills
  • balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact
  • high-quality, rigorous measurement
  • iterative scientific solutions
  • online experimentation systems