Dirk Antonczyk

About Dirk Antonczyk

I am a Senior Science Executive and leader of leaders, currently managing a cross-functional organization of 40+ scientists, engineers, and product managers. My core strength is translating high-dimensional business problems into VP and S-team level strategic ROI.I own the scientific narrative that defines how we estimate the long-term impact of platform changes and the optimization of our multi-billion annual marketing investment. I specialize in architecting the causal engines required to balance the tri-lateral equilibrium between customer experience, seller sustainability, and advertiser ROI.By building agile scientific systems that leverage custom GenAI (SFT), my organization automates thousands of optimization decisions impacting several billion dollars in spend. I am passionate about scaling high-talent density teams and authoring the strategic frameworks that senior leadership uses to greenlight the next generation of platform investments.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Economics & Science (Customer Behavior Analytics)

   Amazon

   Jan 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Organizational Design & Scale: Lead a decentralized \"Leader of Leaders\" organization of 40+ Ph.D. scientists, engineers, and PMs. Established the frameworks required to deliver production-grade science for all of Amazon\'s Retail business units, prioritizing high-velocity experimentation.• Causal AI Architecture: Engineered unified causal systems that connect complex scientific outputs to multi-billion dollar marketing investments. Directed the shift toward true long-term incrementality and counterfactual reasoning for global platform changes.• GenAI Strategy & SFT: Direct the development of custom foundation models and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) pipelines. Established the experimental validation protocols to ensure the inferential validity of GenAI outputs while optimizing for inference cost.• Executive Influence: Author the strategic decision frameworks presented to Senior Leadership to de-risk billion-dollar bets. Translate \"deep thinking\" into actionable business logic that governs thousands of automated optimization decisions annually.

Education

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  M.Sc., Economics

  2007

• ENSAE Paris

  M.Sc., Statistics

  2007

• The University of Freiburg

  Ph.D., Economics

  2011

Skills

• Economics
• Strategy
• R
• Analytics
• Statistics
• Financial Analysis
• Analysis
• Eviews
• Risk Management
• Analytical Skills
• Languages
• Data Analysis
• Sas
• Management
• Financial Modeling
• Stata
• Econometrics
• Due Diligence
• Statistical Modeling
• Sas Programming
• Vba
• Management Consulting