Applied Science Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands

Job description

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an Applied Science Manager to lead the Amazon Sponsored Agent (ASA) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). ASA is new agentic service that enables publishers and apps to monetize their AI experiences with conversational and agentic ads. This team owns the core ASA platform that serves contextual ads across 1P surfaces (Alexa+, Amazon.com) and 3P publisher integrations, delivering AI-native ad formats including Sponsored Collections, Sponsored Brand Agents, and Commercial Insights that seamlessly integrate into conversational experiences.

As an Applied Science Manager, you will innovate and design new conversational ad experiences that transform how customers discover and engage with products on conversational surfaces. You will lead a team of applied scientists and engineers to build and scale ASA's multi-agent system architecture for conversational commerce. You will own the science roadmap for contextual ad serving, conversation understanding, and commercial insights generation that help publishers monetize their AI chat experiences and unlock opportunities to scale Amazon's advertising business into new conversational surfaces.

This role requires strong technical depth in NLP, LLMs, multi-agent systems, and information retrieval, combined with product innovation skills to envision and prototype new advertising experiences for conversational AI. You will manage and grow a science team, set research direction, and influence product strategy. You will work across organizational boundaries with engineering, product, and business teams to translate science investments and innovative product concepts into measurable business impact.