We are looking for an experienced program leader to tackle complex and ambiguous problems that span numerous systems and organizations across PXT. This will be a highly visible leader that will own the communication, coordination, and execution of a long-term, multi-year product vision. They will work with senior scientists and science leaders to define the strategy and requirements to build the PXT Science Excellence Center.

This leader will design, coordinate, and execute science excellence solutions that scale globally including:

- Owning science best practices and making them easily available to to Amazon scientists. Topics include writing, research design, methods application, coding hygiene and guidelines, and meeting and communication guidelines.
- Developing a formal and scalable peer review process for research papers produced by Amazon scientists.
- Proactively identifying continuing education opportunities for scientists as well as developing and designing courses led by current Amazon scientists and scholars.
- Owning an easily searchable central repository of papers and code.
- Organizing an annual PXT research conference.
- Developing education materials including lectures and self guided courses to teach basic data analysis, statistics, and regression analysis to a diverse audience of business leaders.

Working cross-functionally, this leader will identify and secure commitment from science teams across the company for new initiatives, driving consensus on the approach to building a best in class center supporting our growing community of scientists working to our goal of being Earth’s Best Employer.

About the team
The PXT Central Science Team (PXTCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well being, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team which combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Santa Monica, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA