Description Excited about advertising technology? Love Books? Join the Ads Product and Technology (AdPT) team at Amazon focused on building the next generation of advertising products for the Books category. Amazon is investing in technology to unleash superior funnel insights with the purpose of driving return on investment for all advertisers, while powering a better shopping experience with more relevant ads for Amazon retail customers. We are doing this with innovative advertising experiences, both free and paid products, all backed by Amazon's scale and commitment to customer experience. Online advertising includes the highest levels of challenge on the technical side, with high transactional loads, big data, modeling, cross-stack product and UX design, combined and directly connected with a marketplace of supply and demand. It is a high stakes, competitive industry, which attracts the highest level of research and engineering investments. Amazon is just getting started, and there is a lot of opportunity for seasoned talent to come in and significantly shape how advertising based monetization of ecommerce property takes shape on the web. The work developed in the team will become part of the “secret sauce” and core business playbook at the company level. We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (Sr. BIE) to lead the design, implementation, and delivery of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for our fast-growing advertising portfolio. As a Sr. BIE, you will play a key role in shaping the product vision and driving monetization strategies for ad products like Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Author and Brand Stores, Posts, and the Amazon Demand Side Platform. These tools help book advertisers – from large publishing houses to independent authors – to differentiate their brands, build loyalty, and drive awareness and sales across Amazon’s diverse platforms, including Amazon.com, Kindle, Audible, and Goodreads. You will be embedded within the Books Ads Product team, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders such as finance, tech, data science, and operations to develop insights and shape strategic decisions. As a Sr. BIE, you will be instrumental in analyzing and presenting complex data to inform product direction, drive innovation, and optimize ad performance for book advertisers. This person will have solved complicated problems with elegant, simple solutions. They must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytic talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role. Key job responsibilities Use analytical and statistical rigor to identify performance gaps and opportunities for optimization. Own the design, development, and maintenance of datasets, ongoing metrics, analyses and dashboards to drive key business decisions. Create effective mechanisms for understanding feature level opportunities, continually improving ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers. Develop queries and visualizations for ad-hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting. Partner closely with Books Ads Product Team to work backwards from the end state for customers to define product and design requirements, and establish and measure success criteria in ambiguous areas like performance optimization. Represent the quality and growth of business in organization-wide business reviews and documents. A day in the life As a Sr. BIE on the Books Ads team you will work backward from the customer and use your analytical and statistical rigor to identify business opportunities and drive business decisions, and also suggest ways to improve processes and incorporate operational excellence best practices. You will partner with product, engineering, science, and design to articulate and execute the strategy and roadmap for improving books advertising performance and customer experience for shoppers, readers, and book advertisers. This will entail setting the long-term vision while maintaining a high velocity of experimentation and launches. You will represent their business in reviews with senior leadership and key stakeholders across Amazon. About the team The Books Ads team exists to launch, accelerate, and differentiate the advertising business for the publishing category. We own the end-to-end advertising experience for readers, shoppers, publishers, and authors, including ad supply, ad creative, ad serving, and the user experience for books populations. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing fast to pursue a range of new opportunities. Basic Qualifications - 10+ years of professional or military experience - 5+ years of SQL experience - Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets - Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results - Experience with AWS technologies - Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills. - Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining Preferred Qualifications - Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs - Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership 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. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. 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.