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Sr. Economist, DSI

Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127


Job ID: 2788890 | Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast-paced, technologically sophisticated, and friendly work environment. Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to apply learning techniques and advanced mathematical modeling to solve real-world problems? Do you want to play a key role in the future of Amazon's Retail business? This job is for you! The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) team at Amazon is responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of tools used to understand customer behavior and value generation for all Amazon programs. Our vision is to ensure that every decision at Amazon is customer-obsessed and maximizes long-term free cash flow (LTFCF). To achieve this, we build the best, unbiased, and most trusted measures of incremental customer long-term value and make them universally adopted as the company standard for customer-obsessed decisions. Come and join us!Amazon’s CBA team is looking for Economists, who can work at the intersection of economics, statistics, and machine learning; and leverage the power of big data to solve complex problems like long-term causal effect estimation.Key job responsibilities

Economists at Amazon are expected to work directly with other Economists and senior management on key business problems in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third-party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. Amazon economists will apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising, and other areas. You will build econometric models, using our world-class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast-moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, build trust in the techniques with rigorous science and validation, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- PhD in economics or equivalentPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in analytics and applied economics- Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems- Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software- Experience in industry, consulting, government, or academic researchAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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