Jobs

Amazon.com's Data Mining Group seeks an analyst with prowess in
business requirement analysis, exploratory data analysis, text or web
mining, data transformation, model building and deployment. The
analyst should have strong project management skills, attention to
details, self-motivated with excellent verbal and written
communication skills and eager to work with the business community,
specifically able to provide business-level descriptions of the mined
results.

* Experience with a variety of data mining tool suites such as SGI's
Mine Set, Clementine, Datasage/Vignette NetCustomer, SAS and SAS
Enterprise Miner, IBM Intelligent Miner, Mathsoft's S-Plus, Accrue, or
SPSS Neural Connections is strongly preferred.

* Need to have a desire to experiment with new data mining algorithms
and techniques to discover patterns in large volumes of data.

* Knowledge of models for customer scoring, customer attrition,
customer lifetime value, market basket analysis, trend analysis,
etc... are strong plusses.

* Experience with Oracle, SQL and RDBMS Data Models is a strong
  benefit.

* Focus on satisfaction of both external and internal customers,
ability to work as part of a dynamic and highly visible team, and
experience working with business professionals and systems to produce
actionable results is required.

* An undergraduate degree in a strongly quantitative field and minimum
of two years experience deploying solutions for e-commerce, retail,
marketing, finance, or supply-chain is strongly preferred.

Compensation includes stock options. Please send your resume and cover
letter in the body of an e-mail message in ASCII-text and Microsoft
Word format(if available) to lent@amazon.com, or fax your resume and
cover letter to Brian Lent at (425) 653-3418.