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External job descriptionJob summaryAmazon Publisher Services (APS) helps digital publishers around the world build and grow thriving businesses. We provide services and advanced technologies to web, mobile app and advanced TV publishers of all sizes, including many of comScore’s global top 100, to help them monetize their content with demand from multiple programmatic buyers. Our server-side header bidding solutions are fast and reliable across devices, handling billions of queries per day, delivering ads in milliseconds. The result is more profitable advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers.As a Data Scientist on this team, you will:• Solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, diving deep to identify business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, developing statistical and ML models by tailoring to business needs, and collaborating with Scientists, Engineers, BIE's, and Product Managers.• Write code (Python, R, Scala, etc.) to analyze data and build statistical models to solve specific business problems.• Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.• Build decision-making models and propose solution for the business problem you define.• Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.• Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.• Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work, create statistical definition of the outlier, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed.• Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.• Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.About the teamThe Marketplace Services team within Amazon Publisher Services organization primarily focuses on improving monetization for our STV, Web, Mobile and Audio publisher customers. We directly work with 60+ 3p buyers to enable optimal connectivity for publishers to improve their yield. We also own products such as Connections Marketplace (CxM) and Signal IQ that help publishers connect to myriad of 3p and 1p ad tech vendors to boost their bid request quality, while measuring the value of each signal on their bid stream through rigorous A/B testing.Internal job descriptionThe candidate would work with Product, Engineering, BIEs and Scientist across Supply and Demand organization to help make APS the best performing supply path for Amazon ads advertiser customers. They would spearhead efforts to conduct experiments alongside demand and measurement teams to identify optimal perfomance path for advertisers while improving APS Share of Wallet.About the teamThe Marketplace Services team within Amazon Publisher Services organization primarily focuses on improving monetization for our STV, Web, Mobile and Audio publisher customers. We directly work with 60+ 3p buyers to enable optimal connectivity for publishers to improve their yield. We also own products such as Connections Marketplace (CxM) and Signal IQ that help publishers connect to myriad of 3p and 1p ad tech vendors to boost their bid request quality, while measuring the value of each signal on their bid stream through rigorous A/B testing.Basic qualifications- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 4+ years of data scientist experience- Bachelor's degree- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regressionPreferred qualification - 4+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience- 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience- Experience managing data pipelines- Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team- 4+ years of data science experience in ad tech (supply or demand side)Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at .USA, NY, New York - 175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually

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