Sr. Data Scientist, Private Pricing Analytics & Insights

Key Skills

Algorithms, AWS, Machine learning techniques, MATLAB Programming, Python Programming, R Programming, SAS, SQL, UI design, UX design

Job Description

Do you share a passion to make customers successful? Do you believe that a deep understanding of customer and business priorities can transform an organization? Are you excited to discover and solve thorny business challenges through data science and advanced analytics solutions? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment working with diverse teams cutting across functions, organizations, and cultures to achieve a common goal?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon and the leader in providing secure, reliable, scalable, and innovative services that help over a million businesses, governments, education, and not for profits across the globe scale and grow! AWS provides a wide set of scalable services to meet customer needs.

The AWS Global Deal Strategy and Programs (GDSP) organization is responsible for the Private Pricing Program. The Private Pricing Analytics and Insights (PPA&I) team owns building scalable analytical solutions that enable the GDSP organization with actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. This role will focus on Data Science, and Analytics related to the Private Pricing Program, requiring deep technical skills, strong business acumen and a deep analytical background to provide actionable data-driven insights and decision support. As a member of this team, you will dive deep into our data and harness your strong data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) skills to create data structures, build machine learning models, create forecasting , predictive and prescriptive models, build dashboards and visualization to support business strategy and enable GDSP to achieve its goals.

The individual must have the ability to communicate effectively across multiple technical and non-technical business units, as well as across other geographies. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve data problems, are highly organized and detail-oriented, implement new solutions for complex problems, and deliver successfully against highest standards. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual that seeks to “tell the story” of the data with little direction or supervision.

Key job responsibilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support the development of continuously-evolving business analytics and data models, own the quantitative analysis of the performance of our sales team, customers, deal team, partners, markets, and products/services in context of private pricing.
• Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and run A/B experiments to solve complex business problems.
• Perform hand-on analysis and modeling of large datasets to develop actionable insights
• Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models for predictive learning.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
• Develop a deep understanding of sales metrics, reporting tools, and data structures in order to identify and drive resolution of issues, provide actionable intelligence with existing metrics or identify, develop, and propose new metrics, dashboards, scorecards or new tools.
• Develop relationships and processes with sales, finance, sales operations, and other functional teams to identify and address reporting issues.
• Manage and develop advanced analytical tools that align, and simplify, monthly business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes.
• Create operational templates and processes to compile and standardize disparate information that drive standardized reporting and metrics tracking.
• Generate ad-hoc and monthly operational analysis and reports, based on the needs of the stakeholders.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Francisco, CA, USA | Santa Clara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science
• 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 or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Experience documenting modeling for technical and business leaders
• Experience working with data engineers and business intelligence engineers collaboratively
• Demonstrated expertise in AI/ML, forecasting, predictive models, classification, clustering and other advanced data science applications.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/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.