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Amazon is looking for a motivated individual with strong statistical, analytical skills and technological experience to join the DIGI (Data Infrastructure and Generative Intelligence) Ad Sales Finance analytics team. In this position the successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with Finance and Business leaders to optimize Sales Forecasts. In this position the successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with Finance and Business leaders to expand and optimize forecasting models that supports weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reviews for the Display Ads Finance group and our stakeholders.
Job Responsibility:
Build and train models to support forecasting and planning for Advertising Sales Finance
Have strong technical experience, but also be able to work with non-tech partners and communicate complex and technical topics in a simple and understandable fashion
Have a good understanding of machine learning or statistical modeling techniques, including a strong understanding of model parameters and how they affect performance
Understand time-series forecasting techniques (e.g., STL decomposition, ETS/Holt-Winters, ARIMA, Prophet, or similar models)
Familiarity with hierarchical or segmented forecasting problems (e.g., product, region, channel, or customer-level splits)
Apply theoretical or statistical models in an applied, real-world environment
Perform model evaluation such as confidence intervals, error metrics, backtesting, and validation datasets
Work with large, complex datasets across multiple dimensions
Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders
Requirements:
5+ years of data scientist experience
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
3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Nice to have:
Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
Experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance
Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects
Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions
Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication