Amazons Pricing Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet-scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon products worldwide.
We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researcher to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our pricing algorithms across all products listed on Amazon.
This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, and business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work independently to deliver business impact.
Key Job Responsibilities: • See the big picture. Understand and develop science to influence the long-term vision for Amazons science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques. • Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and data teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy models at Amazon scale. • Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems. • Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery. • Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.
A Day in the Life
We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through:
• invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. • shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing-centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. • Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities. • Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods)
Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication.
About the Team
About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery, and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet-scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long-term customer trust by ensuring Amazons prices are always competitive and error-free.