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Applied Science Manager GenAI, CreativeX, Amazon Advertising

Amazon, Seattle, WA, United States


Applied Science Manager GenAI, CreativeX, Amazon Advertising
Job ID: 10384255 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (images, videos) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL), and image + video and audio synthesis. We are looking for a talented Applied Science Manager who can help set the scientific agenda and provide best in class mentoring within the scope of advancing advertiser-facing generative AI. You will help lead scientists within a close-knit team who is highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. Our science team is adept at a variety of skills, especially with agentic AI, generative multi-modal models, LLMs, computer vision, latent diffusion and related foundational models. As a Science Manager you will:

Key job responsibilities

Help set the scientific agenda in collaboration with org's leadership, product managers, engineering and relevant stakeholders.

Guide the team to be world-class at developing large scale generative AI for advertising.

Help mentor scientists towards also contributing with patent submissions, potential peer-reviewed research publications and bar raising hiring.

Contribute and help establish mechanisms for science management, brainstorming, monitoring and validation of outputs.

Hire and develop the best science talent at Amazon.

Present strategy, methods and results to senior leadership.

A day in the life: On a day-to-day basis, you will lead and mentor technical talent, engage and align with product, engineering and other stakeholders, dive deep on advertiser anecdotes and make sure that what the team delivers and is working on aligns with those needs and best practices. You will define and deliver mechanisms to create innovation at scale and engage with senior leadership to align on priorities and opportunities.

About the team: The team consists of applied scientists and AI software/machine learning engineers. We reside in the Creative X organization, which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads.

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience

Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics

PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables

Experience writing strategy documents for executive audiences with clear recommendations in the midst of ambiguity

Background in Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually

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