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Economist III - AMZ9441983
US, WA, Seattle
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Economist III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9441983 Position Responsibilities: Work with the chief economist and/or senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and/or operations. Apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas. Build econometric models using data systems. Apply economic theory to solve business problems. Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems. Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and IV) and forecasting (essential time series models). Leverage big data tools for data extraction. Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon. Position Requirements: Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Must have at least two years of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) private consulting, government, or academic research; (2) use of program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems; (3) use of Python, R, or Stata; and (4) knowledge of SQL. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $159,200/year to $215,300/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000
Economist
US, WA, Seattle
The People eXperience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, wellbeing, and the value of work to Amazonians. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal. PXTCS is looking for an economist who can apply economic methods to address business problems. The ideal candidate will work with engineers and computer scientists to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. PXTCS is looking for creative thinkers who can combine a strong technical economic toolbox with a desire to learn from other disciplines, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas as part of an interdisciplinary technical team. Ideal candidates will work in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will work with teammates to develop scientific models and conduct the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will work closely with engineering teams to develop scalable data resources to support rapid insights, and take successful models and findings into production as new products and services. They will be customer-centric and will communicate scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. A day in the life The Economist will work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to implement a DID analysis or estimate a structural model, or writing and presenting a document with findings to business leaders. Our economists also collaborate with partner teams throughout the process, from understanding their challenges, to developing a research agenda that will address those challenges, to help them implement solutions. About the team PXTCS is a multidisciplinary science team that develops innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Best Employer
Economist III - AMZ9442487
US, VA, Arlington
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Economist III Job Location: Arlington, Virginia Job Number: AMZ9442487 Position Responsibilities: Develop advanced structural demand and econometric frameworks for products and services in Amazon Devices. Create and drive the scientific roadmap for the team, and influence partner science teams. Drive cross-functional collaboration with scientists, engineers, and business leaders to integrate economic insights into strategic decision-making processes and shape future initiatives. Communicate insights in writing and verbally, to senior leaders on Product and Finance teams within the company. Actively mentor junior scientists on advanced econometric techniques. Position Requirements: Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in Economics or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Must have three years of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) working with and using econometrics (including with program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, or high dimensional problems), economic theory, and quantitative methods; and (2) building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $159,200/year to $215,300/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000
Economist, Amazon Grocery
US, TX, Austin
WWGS (Worldwide Grocery Stores) organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s omni-channel grocery offerings (Fresh, Whole Foods, 3P). In this space, Amazon aims to delight customers by providing broad selection, competitive prices, best-in-class delivery, convenient in-store/pickup options across regions, and an end-to-end shopping experience that makes it easy for customers to discover what they love and build complete grocery baskets. The Grocery Economics and Optimization Science team in WWGS is looking for an Economist to drive the vision of creating a bar raising customer experience in online channels, leading to growth in customer acquisition and loyalty. As an Economist on the team, you will help Amazon Grocery’s Delivery and Pickup channels to improve customer experience and accelerate growth opportunities like the recently launched Amazon Grocery Subscription or Fresh Groceries on Same-Day Delivery service. You will be expected to own the the full lifecycle of your projects from business requirements gathering, devising methodological approaches, data extraction and exploration, implementation, validation, and socialization. A successful candidate will be able to partner effectively with both business and technical teams, including clear communication of results and the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have experience applying causal inference techniques and impact estimation, and be curious and excited to apply these in challenging real-world settings. They will thrive in working to deliver impactful solutions to the business problem, in the face of ambiguity over which modeling approaches will deliver the best results. Key job responsibilities - Apply expertise in causal modeling and machine learning to measure the impact of key initiatives on customers’ long-term engagement. - Design experiments to measure pilot programs and support the scaling of successful experiments. - Develop and maintain attribution models to understand the key drivers of high value customer actions. - Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, finance analysts and executive-level decision makers to synthesize findings into actionable insights.
Sr. Economist, Amazon Digital Advertising
US, WA, Seattle
Amazon Digital Advertising develops solutions to deliver on Amazon’s own marketing objectives that educate and delight our customers. We partner with Amazon’s top brands like Alexa, Prime Video, Kindle, Audible to deliver their marketing objectives via Amazon’s Ad Tech products. We are looking for a Senior Economist with expertise in applied econometrics and causal machine learning to drive the core science for our measurement products and enable it to measure the impact of marketing spends at Amazon’s scale. Key job responsibilities 1. Define and frame complex marketing measurement problems through economic principles and causal inference frameworks to identify key business questions and appropriate analytical approaches 2. Build a deep understanding of the marketing measurement domain and utilize it to enable principled, scientific solutions for our measurement needs. 3. Transform complex data into strategic insights by building econometric models using Amazon's world-class data tools 4. Collaborate with Applied Scientists, Engineers and business partners to understand the business problem, articulate the underlying science problem statement, propose and review potential econometric approaches, prototype code, and deep dive on analyses to help inform decision making. 5. Partner with engineering teams to transform your prototype models into scalable deployment that can operate on large scale datasets and be deployed on production. 6. Contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research). 7. Communicate insights and recommendations effectively to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise 8. Work directly with senior management to solve key business problems while utilizing methods at the frontier of economics
Economist
US, NJ, Newark
At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE Audible is actively seeking a talented economist to join our team. Economists at Audible play a critical role in driving success for the business, and also work to raise the bar for Amazon’s broader science/economics community. Our team of economists and data scientists tackles a wide range of questions, including pricing, experimentation science, data-driven product strategy/optimizations, internal productivity/incentives, audience science, and impact/ROI measurement. The ideal candidate will excel at (and enjoy) wearing many hats, and be able to effectively translate business questions into tractable science problems, dive deep into data for analytical insights, and represent the team in a range of settings - from reviews with senior Amazon scientists to reviews with senior Audible/Amazon business leaders. We are open to candidates from a range of fields/backgrounds (including both structural modeling and reduced-form causal inference). If you are passionate about leveraging economic insights to shape the future of digital media, we encourage you to apply and be a part of our dynamic team. As an Economist, you will... - Utilize rigorous economic thinking and econometric methods to provide data-driven recommendations - Design and analyze experiments and quasi experimental analyses - Collaborate with scientists at Audible and Amazon to build econometric models and develop scalable solutions to complex problems - Partner with diverse teams at Audible, including executives, content, product, marketing, and finance, to leverage data-driven insights and economic theory to shape the direction of strategic initiatives - Raise the bar for science/economics work, both within Audible and across the broader Amazon community ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
Principal, Economist - AMZ9085106
US, CA, Culver City
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Principal, Economist Job Location: Culver City, California Job Number: AMZ9085106 Position Responsibilities: Design, test, and implement innovative science solutions to new and existing ad auction products at Amazon. Design new auction and bid algorithms for Amazon’s advertising business to improve market efficiency, advertiser welfare, and monetization of Amazon’s advertising inventory. Conduct economic research and apply the latest insights and empirical data analysis to auctions and mechanism design at Amazon. Lead implementation of auctions and algorithms in Amazon’s digital advertising context. Prepare scientific reports and presentations tailored to advise business (non-technical) audiences in auction design. Formulate recommendations and plans regarding auctions and mechanism design to senior management (director and above). Leverage big data tools to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and use data analysis to evaluate competition dynamics in auction markets. Deliver causal analysis to evaluate impact of new algorithms and new auction mechanisms, including difference-in-differences, panel data, instrument method, and synthetic control. Work with Python, Spark, and SQL. Design and launch stochastic auctions to generate data for learning and measurement use cases. Design and launch measurement frameworks to quantify the impact of new auction algorithms. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $189,400/year to $256,200/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000
Principal Economist, Prime Video
US, WA, Seattle
Interested in influencing what customers around the world see when they turn on Prime Video? The Prime Video Personalization and Discovery matches customers with the right content at the right time, at all touch points throughout the content discovery journey. As a Principal Economist on the team, you will lead the way in shaping how Prime Video consistently makes smart, long-term decisions using online experimentation. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, and peer technologists to solve key business problems. Key job responsibilities - Lead initiatives to measure the value of new feature launches via large-scale online experiments and observational approaches - Scale decision-making across Prime Video by owning tradeoff frameworks when competing interests fail to align - Partner with finance, business, and product managers to bridge the gap between science decisions and business impact - Develop new internal tools to provide visibility and explainability into the model outputs so users can understand and inform future features
Sr Economist, Selling Partner Growth
US, WA, Seattle
Join us in the evolution of Amazon’s Seller business! The Selling Partner Growth organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business, product, and engineering, we catalyze SP growth with comprehensive and accurate data, unique insights, and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential supported by Amazon tools and resources. We are looking for a Senior Economist to lead us to identify data-driven insight and opportunities to improve our SP growth strategy and drive new seller success. As a successful Economist on our talented team of scientists and economists, you will solve complex problems to identify actionable opportunities, and collaborate with engineering, research, and business teams for future innovation. You need to have deep understanding on the business domain and have the ability to connect business with science. You are also strong in econometrics modeling and scientific foundation with the ability to collaborate with engineering to put models in production to answer specific business questions. You are an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will continue to contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research). Key job responsibilities As a Sr. Economist in the team, you will: - Identify opportunities to improve SP growth and translate those opportunities into science problems via principled scientific solutions (e.g. ML, causal). - Mentor and guide the applied scientists and economists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in science. - Design and lead roadmaps for complex science projects to help SP have a delightful selling experience while creating long term value for our shoppers. - Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints. - Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver. - Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
Senior Economist, WW Books Store
US, WA, Seattle
Passionate about books? The Amazon Books Store Experience team is looking for a talented Economist to help invent, design, and measure innovative science solutions to make it easier for millions of customers to find the next book they will love. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: - Partner with cross-functional teams to leverage advanced economic and causal modeling techniques, to drive business insights and decision-making. - Conduct in-depth research and analysis on large, complex data sets to understand customer behavior, pricing dynamics, and the incremental impact of business programs and initiatives. - Design, implement, and maintain scalable econometric and machine learning solutions to automate and improve key measurement and optimization capabilities. - Effectively communicate analysis, insights, and recommendations to influence senior leadership, business strategy and roadmap prioritization. About the team The Books Store Experience team is a core team developing the frameworks and technologies used by dozens of partner teams to develop the best shopping experience for our books customers. The books organization is the oldest organization at Amazon serving customers from the very beginning. This team has a wealth of experience in Amazon and is constantly evolving the technologies we use in order to best serve our customers.
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