Applied Science Manager , Amazon Music Catalog Quality

You independently manage a team of scientists. You identify the needs of your team and effectively grow, hire, and promote scientists to maintain a high-performing team. You have a broad understanding of scientific techniques, several of which may fall out of your specific job function. You define the strategic vision for your team. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver scientific solutions that innovate on catalog quality detection, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. You define clear goals for your team and effectively prioritize, balancing short-term quality improvements and long-term innovation in catalog intelligence. You establish clear and effective metrics and scientific process to enforce consistent, high-quality artifact delivery and measurable catalog quality improvements. You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. You know when to escalate. You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You author strateg BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience - Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics - 6+ years of applied research experience - Knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms - 3+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application - Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers - 5+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience - PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative fi

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