Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites and on other high-quality sites across the web. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit (“it’s always Day1”) and bias for action.
SMB Marketing Analytics team supports SMB Marketing team in delivering highly relevant and personalized marketing content to majority of current and prospective advertisers. In this role, you will work with 10+ highly motivated team-members and will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining data infrastructure, creating automated reporting and dashboards, designing and measuring experiments, and executing complex analysis to support business functions.
In this role you will:
-Design, develop and maintain scaled, automated, user-friendly systems, reports, APIs, dashboards, etc. that will support our business needs.
-Partner with operations/business/science/tech teams to consult, develop and implement KPIs, automated reporting/process solutions, and data infrastructure improvements to meet business needs.
-Help drive new initiatives and data integration projects and apply your deep analytic and business intelligence skills to extract meaningful insight and learning from large and complicated data sets.
-Serve as liaison between the business and product/science teams to prototype new marketing solutions and perform ad hoc investigations into future improvements or innovations. This will require data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations
Key job responsibilities
* Own the design, development, and maintenance of datasets, ongoing metrics, analyses and dashboards to drive key business decisions.
* Develop queries and visualizations for ad-hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting.
* Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers.
* Use analytical and statistical rigor to identify performance gaps and opportunities for optimization.
* Build data infrastructure in collaboration with partner tech-teams to facilitate scaling-up various marketing initiatives.
* Support central BI team in reporting on global marketing efforts.
* Promote best practices in ETL and mentor your team.
A day in the life
* Use technical expertise to suggest ways to improve processes and incorporate operational excellence best practices
* Use analytical and statistical rigor to answer business questions and drive business decisions
* Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, design, analysis, validation, and documentation
* Improve the Knowledge management environment by providing guidance in technical documentation
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience in the data/BI space
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience with statistical analytics and programming languages such as R, Python, Ruby, etc.
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $117,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,800/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.