This role is open to NY and Los Angeles.

Amazon Advertising exists at the intersection of marketing and ecommerce and offers advertisers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon owned properties as well as third party properties Amazon operates. We believe that advertising, when done well, can greatly enhance the value of the customer experience and generate a positive return on investment for our advertising partners.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Associate Principal in our Analytics & Insights Group (AP, A&I) to help scale our growing advertising business. The A&I team is a group of customer-facing data and marketing scientists within Amazon Ads. We work directly with the largest Amazon Ads customers, helping them leverage Amazon’s unique data signals in the form of insights so that they can run more effective Advertising campaigns. In this role, you will work with leadership from our Ads customers and our internal sales teams to: 1) Set marketing strategy to drive performance on and off the Amazon store using Amazon Ads as an input; 2) Design and analyze success metrics for marketing campaigns; 3) Create insight driven learning agendas to achieve customer goals; 4) Communicate recommendations to executive leadership in a clear and compelling fashion.

Key job responsibilities
You will:
· Use Amazon’s data and your understanding of our advertising customers’ business to provide guidance to C-suite marketing leaders through business reviews and frequent in-person presentations to regularly iterate on and articulate a brand’s strategy.
· Present findings and insights in a consultative way to the customer and collaborate with relevant internal teams in order to provide a complete solution.
· Be able to deal with ambiguity in order to decipher complex problems, select an ideal solution from a wide array of analytic techniques and concepts and translate into actionable requirements for your team.
· Have the ability to collaborate, work cross-functionally and communicate effectively across multiple business functions and geographies.
· Create and deliver bespoke analyses and insights for some of the world’s largest advertisers to drive growth across advertiser KPIs and help them grow their businesses.
· Demonstrate deep analytical ability, and develop great expertise in Amazon’s proprietary metrics, working to constantly evolve how we analyze and communicate data driven insights to our advertisers.
· Educate other teams on Amazon media offerings and keep them engaged by delivering learning sessions, writing training documentation and whitepapers for internal and external use.

A day in the life
Check out this post from a current team member explaining a day in the life on the A&I team: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7227708010918227968/

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
- 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ Years of Consulting/ Advisory experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with advertising or retail in one or more of the following industry areas: Consumer Electronics; PC & Wireless; Home; Home Improvement; Sporting Goods; Lawn & Garden; Outdoor Recreation; Shoes; Apparel; Luxury Fashion; Video Games

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.