Senior Manager, Applied Science, Reading Experience

Senior Manager, Applied Science, Reading Experience

Are you interested in improving the Digital Reading Experience? We are from the Kindle Books Team looking for a Senior Manager in Applied Science who will be managing the Applied Scientists and ML Engineering Team. The team is looking to take the reading experience in Kindle to the next level with a set of innovations!

We are building a holistic team focused on leveraging advances in AI to improve the reading experience for Kindle customers. This role is specifically for a Senior Manager, Applied Science who will focus on grooming the team, working with other science teams, influencing the product strategy & team vision, and bringing state-of-the-art innovations for improving the reading experience. The Senior Manager will also be managing the Analytics, Data insights, experimentation, and ML Operations influencing all the key spaces aiding in Science deliverables.

Key job responsibilities

1. You independently manage Science & Engineering teams. You are able to hire, develop, and promote scientists, engineers, and other data-intensive job families (Data Engineers, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts).
2. You define the strategic vision, a long-term roadmap, establish the right scientific team structure, and lead your team(s) as they deliver high-quality, maintainable analysis, research, and potentially production-level models that execute on that vision.
3. Your team is structured to successfully and sustainably meet scientific, business, and technology needs. You leverage talent as needed and make the appropriate people trade-offs to meet incoming demands. Your strategic plans include how your teams will scale or need to change to accommodate business needs.
4. You will be responsible for various aspects of the Science teams like Analytics, Business Intelligence, MLOps, ML Engineering, Data Science, and Applied Science. You keep yourself up-to-date with the recent advances, thereby guiding the team with the right decisions.
5. You work effectively with technical and business leaders. You are able to influence other team roadmaps, reach consensus on approach/prioritization, and deliver scientific artifacts and/or products successfully. You serve as the organization’s voice on all matters of data analytics and scientific modeling.
6. You identify large risks, endemic problems, areas of opportunity/customer value and when needed, are able to influence other teams to collaborate with your team to build solutions.
7. You champion scientific, engineering, and operational excellence best practices within your team and influence other teams in your organization. You bring in an innovation culture within your team and encourage them for next experiments and innovations.

A day in the life

You will be responsible for working with product teams to bring in the long-term vision for this charter. You define the project plans & deliverables and unblock the team to consistently deliver. You work with multiple disciplines for effective delivery. You look at options for collaboration and work with other leaders both from Domain expertise and from Science expertise.

About the team

The vision for the Reading Experience Science & Algorithms team is to enable delightful reading experiences; scale to applicable content and thereby making Kindle the best place to read with the assistance of Science and AI capabilities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. MS/PhD degree in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or related areas.
2. Proven track record of shipping AI products.
3. 10+ years of working experience in related AI areas.
4. 5+ years of managing experience of scientists.
5. Excellent business writing, verbal communication, and cross-discipline collaboration skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience managing software development engineers/ML engineers.
2. Worked with product teams for building vision/strategy for a space.
3. 2+ years of hands-on experience as a Senior Scientist.

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