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Customers love discovering what is trending, esp. shopping in categories like fashion where customers are looking for inspiration and fashionable styles. Trending products spark curiosity, build confidence, and reassure them they’re making smart choices. Highlighting these trending items and brands on Amazon not only satisfies their desire to stay current but also enhances the overall shopping experience, driving deeper engagement. This newly formed charter in North America Store (NAS) focuses on developing various LLM and ML-driven trend signals (e.g. vital trends, fashionable trending styles, seasonable trends, locale trends, sports or events/holiday trends, niche and trending brands) and solutions leveraging both Amazon internal and external world knowledge to help customers easily discover trending brands and products on Amazon, and enable us to surface these high-interest products in real time and empower any team across Amazon to tap into this intelligence for their specific use cases. In addition, we're in this early stage of exploring exciting opportunities to build AI agents to provide marketing and other clients trend insights to assist clients making the right business decisions.
We're looking for a lead Sr. Applied Scientist who can play the thought leadership role for this ML-focused Trends program as well as collaborating with Product leaders, engineering teams and other scientists to deliver scalable solutions with large business and customer impact.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead complex projects that design and build LLM and ML solutions identifying trending themes and recommendations, as well as AI agents to provide trends insights.
- Collaborate with own and partner teams on customer-facing experiences that will utilize the data and ML models to better serve customers discovery needs on trending products and brands.
- Perform hands-on data analysis, build machine-learning models, run regular A/B tests, and communicate the impact to senior management.
- Drive continued scientific innovation as a thought leader and practitioner.
- Provide technical and career development guidance to scientists and engineers in the organization.


About the team
This newly formed charter in North America Store (NAS) focuses on developing various LLM and ML-driven trend signals (e.g. vital trends, fashionable trending styles, seasonable trends, locale trends, sports or events/holiday trends, niche and trending brands) and solutions leveraging both Amazon internal and external world knowledge to help customers easily discover trending brands and products on Amazon, and enable us to surface these high-interest products in real time and empower any team across Amazon to tap into this intelligence for their specific use cases. In addition, we're in this early stage of exploring exciting opportunities to build AI agents to provide marketing and other clients trend insights to assist clients making the right business decisions.