Amazon
Principal Research Scientist , Amazon Search
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Principal Research Scientist , Amazon Search
Job ID: 2698252 | Amazon.com Services LLCAre you passionate about delighting hundreds of millions of customers and building the best search experience to help customers make well-informed purchase decisions on Amazon? Are you passionate about building the next generation product shopping and search experience? The Search and Discover experience on Amazon is central to every customer’s shopping mission and purchasing journey. Amazon Search is looking for a self-driven, customer obsessed, and seasoned research scientist to drive the overall search customer insights efforts and measure customer perceptions for Amazon Search.
If you are passionate about using user research & customer insights to influence the future direction of Amazon Search and building a small but top notch user research science team, this is a job for you. In this highly visible role, you will work across cross-functional teams and collaborate with partners to drive user research planning, align research goals to the product roadmap, and own user research execution and final deliverables to make sure that we are always positioned to exceed customer expectations. You will present the search customer insights to various stakeholders including senior executives.
Key job responsibilitiesDesign and conduct significantly complex research studies that impact long-term product strategy and the future of customer experience.Build customer perception measurements for Amazon search experience and develop the methods to correlate customer perception with search experience improvements.Define search customer insights research strategy, own the research roadmap and prioritize research opportunities across different areas.Identify customer segments and latent customer needs, define and improve methodologies, data collection, analysis/synthesis, and identify opportunities to improve customer experience.Manage multiple customer insights research project execution, prioritization, and ensure research projects timely delivery at the highest quality levels.Adapt and/or create new customer insights research methodologies and workflows to support product goals at scale and work effectively with agencies and vendors.Work cross functionally and collaborate with technical product managers, technical program managers, UX designers, science, and engineering teams to proactively plan research and align research goals to the product roadmap.Work with data analysts/data scientists to correlate qualitative research with quantitative data analysis, and interpret complicated data across quantitative and behavioral analysis.Own customer insights research results and prioritization communication with all stakeholders including senior executives.Build, manage, and grow a small team of research scientists.
About the team
Our team operates in a friendly, fast-paced, and diverse and inclusive work environment. We are driven by the excitement of inventing products, building technologies, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope, benefits, and support of a large company and the spirit and heart of a small startup. At Amazon, our mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of tech industry or equivalent experience- Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Human-computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, statistics, Computer Science or any related quantitative fieldPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in prototyping with large-scale data analysis applications in complicated systems- PhD in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or any related quantitative field- Knowledge and experience in search/recommendation products, E-Commerce, and consumer facing mobile products.
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Job ID: 2698252 | Amazon.com Services LLCAre you passionate about delighting hundreds of millions of customers and building the best search experience to help customers make well-informed purchase decisions on Amazon? Are you passionate about building the next generation product shopping and search experience? The Search and Discover experience on Amazon is central to every customer’s shopping mission and purchasing journey. Amazon Search is looking for a self-driven, customer obsessed, and seasoned research scientist to drive the overall search customer insights efforts and measure customer perceptions for Amazon Search.
If you are passionate about using user research & customer insights to influence the future direction of Amazon Search and building a small but top notch user research science team, this is a job for you. In this highly visible role, you will work across cross-functional teams and collaborate with partners to drive user research planning, align research goals to the product roadmap, and own user research execution and final deliverables to make sure that we are always positioned to exceed customer expectations. You will present the search customer insights to various stakeholders including senior executives.
Key job responsibilitiesDesign and conduct significantly complex research studies that impact long-term product strategy and the future of customer experience.Build customer perception measurements for Amazon search experience and develop the methods to correlate customer perception with search experience improvements.Define search customer insights research strategy, own the research roadmap and prioritize research opportunities across different areas.Identify customer segments and latent customer needs, define and improve methodologies, data collection, analysis/synthesis, and identify opportunities to improve customer experience.Manage multiple customer insights research project execution, prioritization, and ensure research projects timely delivery at the highest quality levels.Adapt and/or create new customer insights research methodologies and workflows to support product goals at scale and work effectively with agencies and vendors.Work cross functionally and collaborate with technical product managers, technical program managers, UX designers, science, and engineering teams to proactively plan research and align research goals to the product roadmap.Work with data analysts/data scientists to correlate qualitative research with quantitative data analysis, and interpret complicated data across quantitative and behavioral analysis.Own customer insights research results and prioritization communication with all stakeholders including senior executives.Build, manage, and grow a small team of research scientists.
About the team
Our team operates in a friendly, fast-paced, and diverse and inclusive work environment. We are driven by the excitement of inventing products, building technologies, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope, benefits, and support of a large company and the spirit and heart of a small startup. At Amazon, our mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of tech industry or equivalent experience- Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Human-computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, statistics, Computer Science or any related quantitative fieldPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in prototyping with large-scale data analysis applications in complicated systems- PhD in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or any related quantitative field- Knowledge and experience in search/recommendation products, E-Commerce, and consumer facing mobile products.
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