Data Science Manager, Alexa AI

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa is the groundbreaking cloud-based intelligent agent that powers Echo and other devices designed around your voice. Our mission is to push the envelope in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML) and Dialog Management, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.

Amazon Alexa AI has an opportunity for a dynamic, Data Science Manager to lead our teams in the spoken language understanding field. We are adding new marketplaces to Alexa with the new languages associated with those marketplaces. The foundation for our progress is our ability to work with data, to measure impact and accuracy, to respond quickly while keeping the long-term vision in mind, and to develop the talent on our teams. We are looking for a leader with the ability to guide teams through decisions regarding modeling and data and their impact on improving the customer experience.

This role requires a thought leader able to see beyond what we are doing today and identify where we will need to be in the future, and get us there through concrete practical steps. A successful candidate will have a broad range of domain skills from statistical machine learning to data management, to analytics and data science. Additional responsibilities include:
· Deploying NLU and ML models in a large-scale production setting and coaching the team on various challenges and trade-offs in producing models able to perform consistently across real-world data
· Partnering with teams across the organization to piece together data, models, and infrastructure into a cohesive end-to-end solution
· Support a team with multidisciplinary and talented people, requiring management skills that enable them to thrive
· Regular reporting on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to upper-level leadership
A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. They will hire and develop their own team, build customer-facing experiences, and manage their own projects.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Linguists, Mathematics, or related field
· 3+ years of related work experience
· 3+ years of hands-on experiences in data science and machine learning
· 3+ years experience building technical teams
· 3+ years experience working with language-specific technologies