Amazon Advertising exists at the intersection of marketing and e-commerce and offers advertisers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon-owned and third party properties. We believe that advertising, when done well, can greatly enhance the value of the customer experience and generate a positive return on investment for our advertising partners. We are currently looking for a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to help scale our growing advertising business. The Data Scientist is a key member of the Global Marketing Insights team at Amazon Ads, working with marketing, product, retail and other Amazon business partners to analyze and improve advertisers’ performance on Amazon, in support of their marketing objectives. You will work with Amazon's unique data and translate it into high-quality and actionable insights and recommendations to improve the effectiveness of advertiser campaigns and unlock business opportunities. Day to day activities include analyzing advertiser behaviors to develop data-driven insights on what tactics and strategies lead to success. You will also build automated solutions to generate science driven insights at scale, that are distributed to our advertisers across channels. Basic qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or a related technical field - Proven experience in data analytics or data science roles - Proficiency with SQL and Python - Strong understanding of basic statistical techniques and methodologies such as distributions, hypothesis testing, regressions, experimentation, A/B Testing etc. - Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills (both written and verbal) - Ability to work cross-functionally and with technical and non-technical stakeholders Preferred qualifications - Understanding of advanced statistical techniques and methodologies such as causal inference, propensity score matching, machine learning etc. - Experience with developing and deploying production machine learning models, especially on cloud platforms - Experience building and managing data pipelines - Experience with digital advertising products, performance analytics , marketing and advertising campaigns - MBA, Master’s, or Doctoral degree in Economics, Engineering, Marketing, Statistics, Advertising, or related fields - Publication track record/writing experience (ex. published a paper in a technical journal or trade publication) About the team The Marketing Insights team is responsible for delivering science backed insights to millions of advertisers via our marketing messages. Our team is distributed across the globe and is building cutting edge data science to identify and communicate the impact of various advertising strategies for our products. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA