DESCRIPTION

Amazon Prime is a program that provides millions of members with unlimited one-day delivery, unlimited streaming of video and music, secure online photo storage, access to kindle e-books as well as Prime special deals on Prime Day. In India, Prime members get unlimited free One-Day and Two-day delivery, video streaming and early and exclusive access to deals. After the launch in 2016, the Amazon Prime team is now looking for a detailed oriented business intelligence engineer to lead the business intelligence for Prime and drive member insights.

At Amazon, we’re always working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a dynamic, organized, and customer-focused Analytics expert to join our Amazon Prime Analytics team. The team supports the Amazon India Prime organization by producing and delivering metrics, data, models and strategic analyses.
This is an Individual contributor role that requires an individual with excellent team leadership skills, outstanding business acumen, and the breadth to work across multiple Amazon Prime Business Teams, Data Engineering, Machine Learning and Software Development teams. A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and a proven ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

Key job responsibilities

· Developing a long term analytical strategy and driving the implementation of that strategy.
· Using analytics to influence multiple departments, increasing their productivity and effectiveness to achieve strategic goals.
· Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations that help shape our business roadmap.
· Large scale data mining to find trends and problems, then communicate and drive corrective action.
· Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations
· Apply Statistical and Machine Learning methods to specific business problems
· Partner with Machine Learning team in Model Building w.r.t. variable definition, model validation and creation of a targeting strategy
· Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions across Amazon Prime business units.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 2+ years of data scientist experience
– 3+ 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
– Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
– Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company