Applied Sceince Manager - Amazon Music Team

The Music Catalog Quality team at Amazon Music serves a key role in developing solutions to ensure and improve the quality of catalogue metadata and content across the music streaming experience. We create solutions that detect, measure, and remediate quality issues in music metadata - including artist information, track attributes, versions, and content tags- and provide actionable insights that enable continuous improvement of the catalogue. We leverage a host of scientific and engineering technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and automated data validation pipelines.

As an Applied Science Manager on the team, you will lead a team of scientists to define and execute a transformative vision for holistic catalogue quality measurement, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. Your team will own the science solutions for foundational quality detection frameworks, metadata validation and correction technologies, state-of-the-art algorithms to identify and resolve catalogue anomalies (violative content, duplicative/low value content, misattributed tracks, incorrect metadata), and/or agentic AI solutions that help internal teams quickly surface and fix quality issues to ensure customers receive accurate, complete catalogue experiences.

We are a team of scientists and MLEs focused on music catalogue quality and metadata intelligence. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and data quality systems with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, content operations teams, and other scientists with expertise in music metadata, content classification, and building scalable modelling and software solutions that keep the Amazon Music catalogue accurate, complete, and trustworthy.

Responsibilities:

• 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 catalogue quality detection, metadata enrichment, and content integrity.
• You define clear goals for your team and effectively prioritise, balancing short-term quality improvements and long-term innovation in catalogue intelligence.
• You establish clear and effective metrics and a scientific process to enforce consistent, high-quality artefact delivery and measurable catalogue 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 strategic documentation for your team.
• You communicate issues and options with leaders in such a way that facilitates understanding and leads to a decision.
• You work successfully with customers, leaders, and engineering teams.
• You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonise discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience.
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics.
• 8+ 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 applications.
• 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 an equivalent quantitative field.