Senior Manager Applied Science, Prime Video Personalization & Discovery

About the role

As a Sr. Manager, Applied Science, in the Prime Video Personalization and Discovery organization, you will be responsible for optimizing the complete customer experience across all touch points throughout customers’ discovery journey. This includes building AI and optimization solutions and working with product and engineering teams to deliver the optimal balance of customer delight and business outcomes.

About the team

Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD) is dedicated to creating a highly personalized content discovery experience that delights customers and drives both short- and long-term business goals. Our scope includes personalized recommendations, search, marketing, and the advanced machine learning technology and infrastructure that underpins these experiences. Our mission is to automate and enhance customer engagement through personalization, using ML and Generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Build large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale.
• Distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives.
• Hire and lead experienced scientists and develop junior members from academia or industry.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale.
• Master's degree in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent).

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large-scale applications.
• 5+ years of hands-on work in big data, machine learning, and predictive modeling.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent).
• Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, etc.
• Experience with Java, C++, or other programming languages, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent scripting languages.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

USA, WA, SEATTLE - $218,800.00 - $295,900.00 USD annually.