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Galway, Ireland
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CIKM 2020
October 19 - 23, 2020
Galway, Ireland

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We're proud to be a silver sponsor of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), which provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as advances on data and knowledge bases.

Note: This will be a fully virtual conference and presentations will be given via pre-recorded videos, followed by synchronized online discussions during the scheduled conference period.

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  • Xin Luna Dong
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    Xin Luna Dong
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    Ceres: Harvesting Knowledge from the Semi-structured Web

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    US, VA, Virtual Location - Virginia
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    FR
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    US, WA, Seattle
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What you will do: You will lead a team of talented and experienced scientists and engineers that implement solutions to improve automated speech recognition (ASR) for Alexa Shopping customers. 
You will build a world class team, demonstrate thought-leadership and guide the team to make the right scientific or technical trade-offs to meet long term/short-term business needs. You will lead research and drive greenfield invention leading a team of data scientists and software engineers. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 
You will own: 
(1) Creating a road map of the most challenging business questions from product owners, program managers and senior leadership, and use data to find solutions.
(2) Partnering with scientists across Shopping and Alexa to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Shopping ASR. 
(3) Working with stakeholders and internal customer teams to solve business and technology problems to delight both internal stakeholder teams and Alexa end customers. 
(4) Creating systems and data pipelines to deliver solutions at Amazon scale.And finally, you will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages. You will be working closely with executive leadership, multiple product managers and leaders from partner teams in Amazon Retail, Alexa, and Speech Recognition teams. 

What we are looking for: We are looking for a talented Data Science Manager with a strong technical background and solid people management skills to build, manage and develop a highly-talented and experienced data science team. We are seeking leaders that can guide technical and product innovation in the areas of voice experiences, machine learning models and the distributed systems to bring our vision together. Strong judgment and communication skills, long term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for the success in this role.Key job responsibilitiesYou will own: 
(1) Creating a road map of the most challenging business questions from product owners, program managers and senior leadership, and use data to find solutions.
(2) Partnering with scientists across Shopping and Alexa to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Shopping ASR. 
(3) Working with stakeholders and internal customer teams to solve business and technology problems to delight both internal stakeholder teams and Alexa end customers. 
(4) Creating systems and data pipelines to deliver solutions at Amazon scale.(5) Growing and developing the careers of scientists and SDEs in the team.A day in the lifeYou'll review KPIs for the business and the team and look for ways each day to improve them or to create new metrics and insights. Partner with Alexa ASR, Retail Search and Shopping CX owners to align goals, tech strategy and roadmaps. Guide your team to build new data science solutions, ML models and data pipelines.About the teamThe Shopping ASR team is a mix of data scientists and SDEs that own the charter of improving speech accuracy for all shopping customers across devices (Amazon App, Echo, Show) and experiences such as Purchasing, Your Account, Shopping Lists and Product Q&A. We work closely with Alexa ASR, Shopping NLU and Automated Metrics as well as teams in retail such as M5.
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