Applied Science Manager, AWS Startups

Trusted by more startups around the world, AWS makes the power of cloud computing accessible for all by giving founders everywhere access to the same technology that powers the world"s largest companies. With nearly two decades of experience supporting hundreds of thousands of startups, including 80% of unicorns, we democratize cloud computing to help founders bring their innovative ideas to life.

We support founders at every stage of their journey, from initial onboarding and credit programs to AI-powered guidance and scale solutions. Data is central to how we do this: it helps us identify high-potential startups early, personalize the guidance we deliver, and prioritize where we can create the most value for founders and for AWS.

We are seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead a team of applied scientists and analysts building the data and machine learning capabilities behind AWS Startups. You will own the science roadmap end-to-end, from the data foundation that unifies signals about founders, startups, and their products, through a portfolio of machine learning models, to the surfaces that put insights in the hands of the teams and products that serve startups. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting the technical bar for your team while developing their careers.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of applied scientists, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts; hire and develop talent and set a high technical bar.
• Own and prioritize the team"s science roadmap and set technical direction for its machine learning models and data assets, balancing rapid experimentation with production quality, cost, and reliability.
• Scope scientific projects, design and evaluate experiments, and productionize models that deliver measurable impact, establishing measurement, evaluation, and operational-excellence standards so quality and impact are quantified and defensible.
• Drive the science behind recommendation systems, startup segmentation and targeting, and fraud detection, delivering models that surface relevant opportunities, group and prioritize startups by need and fit, and protect the business from fraud and abuse.
• Partner with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to translate science into scalable products, and communicate strategy, results, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical leaders.
• Foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation, and proactively identify and escalate risks with clear mitigation plans.

About the team

The AWS Startups team builds innovative products and platforms that support startup customers throughout their journey, from initial onboarding and credit programs to AI-powered guidance and scale solutions. Our portfolio serves hundreds of thousands of startup customers globally, and we partner with business development, field marketing, and solutions architecture teams worldwide. We are building the next generation of AI-native products that make world-class cloud expertise accessible to every founder.