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Amazon Sr. Data Scientist - Customer Insights & Audience Targeting, Worldwide Specialist Org (WWSO), US Major Cities (hybrid) in Atlanta, Georgia
Description
As a Senior Applied Data Scientist on the Targeting & Tooling team, you will have the opportunity to gain deep insights into customer needs and accelerate our go-to-market strategies. Leveraging cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques, you will provide actionable and understandable recommendations that enable our sales teams to anticipate customer requirements and identify those best positioned to benefit from AWS cloud solutions. You will work closely with stakeholders throughout the organization to consume, analyze, and interpret customer data from a variety of sources.
To thrive in this role, you should have strong communication skills to convey technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. A passion for identifying trends and telling compelling data stories is essential. Top candidates will hold advanced degrees in data science, applied mathematics or other quantitative fields.
The ideal Senior Applied Data Scientist will leverage their analytical abilities and leadership skills to help improve customer experiences and drive business results as a key member of the WWSO team.
Key job responsibilities
Leverage machine learning and advanced analytical techniques to extract meaningful insights from large, complex data sets related to GenAI, Enterprise Applications, Containerized Applications, and Serverless applications.
Build, evaluate, and optimize data science models to solve focused business problems such as improving customer targeting, predicting product demand, and identifying growth opportunities.
Work closely with Go-To-Market, field teams, and product teams to understand key challenges and inform strategic initiatives with data-driven recommendations.
Communicate analysis, results and recommendations clearly to key stakeholders to influence Go-To-Market strategy.
Keep updated on latest data science and machine learning advancements and evaluate new methods for applicability to current business problems.
Develop best practices for building, evaluating, deploying and monitoring analytical models in production environments.
A day in the life
As a Senior Applied Data Scientist on the Targeting and Tooling team, a typical day may start by meeting with our go-to-market teams to deeply understand the customer challenges they want to solve, the AWS services and technologies that can address those needs, and the key success metrics for their initiatives.
Leveraging your expertise of real-world customer implementations and use cases, you will translate business goals into focused, data-driven projects. This involves identifying leading indicators and unique data sources to model ideal customer profiles and high-potential targets.
About the team
The Targeting and Tooling team plays a crucial role in enabling AWS go-to-market teams to achieve their strategic initiatives. We leverage cutting-edge data science and machine learning techniques to equip our sales and marketing teams with actionable insights that accelerate cloud transformation.
Our core mission is to provide data-driven targeting that allows AWS go-to-market teams to anticipate customer needs early and identify high-potential opportunities. Working closely with stakeholders, we first strive to thoroughly understand existing solutions and offerings along with their target outcomes.
With this context, we develop innovative predictive models that identify both current ideal customers and those likely to expand their AWS footprint over time. In addition, we create novel metrics and adoption models that measure the overall success of the initiative.
The Targeting and Tooling group produces the actionable intelligence that directly informs go-to-market strategies worldwide. The insights we uncover help prioritize accounts and opportunities to drive AWS growth. As a team of elite data scientists and machine learning engineers, we shape plans that support sales, marketing, and cloud adoption success across all industries.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Atlanta, GA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree, or PhD
Experience using managed ML/AI solutions
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.