Are you passionate about diving deep and developing insight into big business problems? AWS HR is seeking an experienced Research Science leader to head up a team of scientist and engineers responsible for developing insights around AWS’s most important asset. We are looking for a motivated leader that has solid industrial research experience and management skills. The science and research team is responsible for quantitative data analysis, building models and prototypes for Amazon HR and AWS management, and building state-of-the-art algorithms to forecast. This team plays a significant role in the innovation pipeline from business needs, research work, prototyping/simulation, to implementation by working closely with a variety of colleagues in engineering, product management, HR senior leadership and various research teams across Amazon. Technical Responsibilities: - Interact with engineering, operations and business teams to develop an understanding and domain knowledge of operational
· PhD in Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related field. · 8+ years of industrial/academic experience in large scale simulation, predictive analytic, and optimization. · Experienced in managing and leading scientists as well as a successful record of developing junior members from academia/industry to a successful career track in a business environment. · Ability to manage and quantify improvement in multiple business areas resulting from business analytics, optimization techniques, and/or statistical modeling. · Demonstrated use of modeling and optimization