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US, WA, Seattle
Device Economics is looking for a senior economist experienced in causal inference, machine learning, empirical industrial organization, and scaled systems to work on business problems to advance critical resource allocation and pricing decisions in the Amazon Devices org. Senior roles lead vision setting, methods innovation, and act as thought leaders to Devices finance and business executives. Output will be included in scaled systems to automate existing processes and to maximize business and customer objectives. Amazon Devices designs and builds Amazon first-party consumer electronics products to delight and engage customers. Amazon Devices represents a highly complex space with 100+ products across several product categories (e-readers [Kindle], tablets [Fire Tablets], smart speakers and audio assistants [Echo], wifi routers [eero], and video doorbells and cameras [Ring and Blink]), for sale both online and in offline retailers in several regions. The space becomes more complex with dynamic product offering with new product launches and new marketplace launches. The Device Economics team leads in analyzing these complex marketplace dynamics to enable science-driven decision making in the Devices org. Device Economics achieves this through scientific applications that provide deep understanding of customer preferences. Our team’s outputs inform product development decisions, investments in future product categories, and product pricing and promotion. We have achieved substantial impact on the Devices business, and will achieve more. Device Economics seeks an experienced economist adept in measuring customer preferences and behaviors with proven capacity to innovate, scale measurement, drive rigor, and mentor talent. The candidate will work with Amazon Devices science leadership to refine science roadmaps, models, and priorities for innovation and simplification, and advance adoption of insights to influence important resource allocation and prioritization decisions. Effective communication skills (verbal and written) are required to ensure success of this collaboration. The candidate must be passionate about advancing science for business and customer impact.
US, VA, Arlington
The Central Science Team within Amazon’s People Experience and Technology org (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 looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations, and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. They will lead teams of researchers to produce robust, objective research results and insights which can be communicated to a broad audience inside and outside of Amazon. Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will work well in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the HR organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will be customer-centric – clearly communicating scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. This position is for an individual contributor role, but a successful candidate could have the opportunity to take on 1-3 direct reports. Key job responsibilities Use structural economic modeling to evaluate the impact of policies on employee outcomes, and examine how external labor market and economic conditions impact Amazon's ability to hire and retain talent. A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to 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 We are a multidisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Best Employer.
US, WA, Redmond
Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. Do you get excited by aerospace, space exploration, and/or satellites? Do you want to help build solutions at Project Kuiper to transform the space industry? If so, then we would love to talk! Key job responsibilities • Work cross-functionally with product, business development, and various technical teams (engineering, science, simulations, etc.) to execute on the long-term vision, strategy, and architecture for the global demand forecast • Lead measurement of customer preferences and behaviors related to different product offerings, price points, and promotions and integration of findings into Kuiper's Global Demand Forecasting models. • Design and deliver modern, flexible, scalable economic models integrating data and assumptions from a variety of sources and systems, increasing forecast accuracy over time • Define science roadmaps, models, and priorities for innovation and simplification, and advance adoption of insights to influence important resource allocation and prioritization decisions • Synthesize and communicate economic insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to drive change across Kuiper. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
US, WA, Bellevue
Amazon is looking for an outstanding Senior Economist to help build next generation selection/assortment systems. On the Specialized Selection team within the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization, we own the selection to determine which products Amazon offers in our fastest delivery programs. We build tools and systems that enable our partners and business owners to scale themselves by leveraging our problem domain expertise, focusing instead on introspecting our outputs and iteratively helping us improve our ML models rather than hand-managing their assortment. We partner closely with our business stakeholders as we work to develop state-of-the-art, scalable, automated selection. Our team is highly cross-functional and employs a wide array of scientific tools and techniques to solve key challenges, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning, non-convex optimization, causal inference, natural language processing, linear programming, reinforcement learning, and other forecast algorithms. Some critical research areas in our space include modeling substitutability between similar products, incorporating basket awareness and complementarity-aware logic, measuring speed sensitivity of products, modeling network capacity constraints, and supply and demand forecasting. We're looking for a candidate with a background in experiment design and causal analysis to lead studies related to selection and speed. Potential projects include understanding the short-term and long-term customer impact of assortment changes across different speed. As an Senior Economist, you'll build econometric models using our world-class data systems and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast-moving environment. You will work with software engineers, product managers, and business teams to understand the business problems and requirements, distill that understanding to crisply define the problem, and design and develop innovative solutions to address them. To be successful in this role, you'll need to communicate effectively with product and tech teams, and translate data-driven findings into actionable insights. You'll thrive if you enjoy tackling ambiguous challenges using the economics toolkit and identifying and solving problems at scale. We have a supportive, fast-paced team culture, and we prioritize learning, growth, and helping each other continuously raise the bar. Key job responsibilities - Lead data-driven econometric studies to create future business opportunities - Consult with stakeholders in Selection and other teams to help solve existing business challenges - Independently identify and pursue new opportunities to leverage economic insights - Advise senior leaders and collaborate with other scientists to drive innovation - Support innovative delivery program growth worldwide - Write business and technical documents communicating business context, methods, and results to business leadership and other scientists - Serve as a technical lead and mentor for junior scientists, ensuring a high science bar - Serve as a technical reviewer for our team and related teams, including document and code reviews
US, WA, Seattle
Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale. Our team owns sophisticated science capabilities for forecasting the WW Amazon Stores P&L, focusing on costs and the bottomline (profitability). We are looking for an outstanding Senior economist to lead new high visibility initiatives for forecasting the WW Amazon Stores P&L (focusing on costs and the bottomline). The forecasting models will be used to enable better financial planning and decision making for senior leadership up to VP level. You will build new econometric models from the ground up. The role will develop new driver based forecasting models for Retail related P&L lines that incorporate business drivers. The Sr Economist will also help generate new insights on how macroeconomic factors impact the P&L. This role will have very high visibility with senior leadership up to VP level. We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial planning and decision-making through economics. The ideal candidate combines econometric acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, economists, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action.
US, WA, Redmond
Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. The Sr. Economist, Kuiper Marketing, will lead the development of state-of-the-art, scalable models to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing. In this critical role, you will leverage your deep expertise in causal inference to design and implement robust measurement frameworks that provide actionable insights to drive strategic business decisions. The right person in this role will be able to deal with ambiguity and take the lead in defining frameworks where no prior examples exist. They will be an ambitious self-starter with ability to operate independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and execute to get the job done will be key to success in the role. The successful candidate will have: - Experience applying causal inference and marketing science techniques, such as econometrics, machine learning, and randomized experiments. - Proven track record of developing and implementing sophisticated, scalable models to measure marketing effectiveness and attribution. - Expertise in programming languages (e.g., R, Python) and proficiency in working with large, complex datasets. - Strong problem-solving skills, ability to think critically, and a keen eye for detail. - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical analyses into actionable business insights. - Experience in a fast-paced, data-driven environment, with the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing and commercial teams to define the measurement strategy and ensure alignment on objectives. - Leverage large, complex datasets to uncover hidden patterns and trends, extracting meaningful insights that inform marketing optimization and investment decisions. - Develop advanced econometric and machine learning models to rigorously evaluate the causal incremental impact of marketing campaigns on customer perceptions and behaviors. - Work with engineers and data scientists to automate models in a production environment. - Stay up-to-date with the latest research and methodological advancements in causal inference and machine learning to continuously enhance the team's capabilities. - Effectively communicate analysis findings, recommendations, and their business implications to key stakeholders, including senior leadership. - Mentor and guide scientists and engineers fostering a culture of analytical excellence and innovation. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
US, WA, Seattle
Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics org is looking for an Economist to spearhead the rapid growth of our Marketing Measurement solutions. The team focuses on building scalable ML and causal inference solutions to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon marketing efforts and provide actionable insights to the various marketing teams within Amazon. We work closely with business stakeholders and strive to continuously produce tangible impact on the company’s strategic and tactical planning and operations. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You will apply your econometrics expertise to identify opportunities for further research and to provide insights that drive larger initiatives. You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine/deep learning at scale to solve business problems. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with product managers and software teams to define key business questions and work with the analytics team to solve them. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon marketing, as well allow you to be part of the large science community within the Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization. Key job responsibilities The main responsibilities for this position include: - Apply your expertise in causal modeling and ML to develop systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions - Own the end-to-end development of novel causal inference models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions - Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks - Review and audit modeling processes and results from other economists/scientists, both junior and senior - Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy - Formalize assumptions about how our models are expected to behave and explain why they are reasonable - Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights - Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making - Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon About the team The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.
GB, London
We are looking for an Economist to work on exciting and challenging business problems related to Amazon Retail’s worldwide product assortment. You will build innovative solutions based on econometrics, machine learning, and experimentation. You will be part of a interdisciplinary team of economists, product managers, engineers, and scientists, and your work will influence finance and business decisions affecting Amazon’s vast product assortment globally. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities * Work on a challenging problem that has the potential to significantly impact Amazon’s business position * Develop econometric models and experiments to measure the customer and financial impact of Amazon’s product assortment * Collaborate with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change * Influence business leaders based on empirical findings
US, WA, Bellevue
Economists in Delivery Experience (DEX) solve key business problems in operations and help drive innovation in Amazon's retail supply chain. You'll apply frontier economic methods to product design, pricing, personalization, program evaluation, and more. You'll 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 develop novel approaches to solve quantitative problems and contribute to the design of automated systems across the company. We're looking for a Senior Economist with a background in causal analysis to lead studies related to innovative delivery programs. Potential projects include understanding how customers value programs that enable coordinated package delivery, scheduled delivery, and sustainability in delivery services. To be successful in this role, you'll need to communicate effectively with product and tech teams, work closely with partners across DEX and Amazon, and translate data-driven findings into actionable insights. You'll thrive if you enjoy tackling ambiguous challenges using the economics toolkit and identifying and solving problems at scale. We have a supportive, fast-paced team culture, and we prioritize learning, growth, and helping each other continuously raise the bar. Key job responsibilities Lead data-driven econometric studies to create future business opportunities Consult with stakeholders in Delivery Experience and other teams to help solve existing business challenges Independently identify and pursue new opportunities to leverage economic insights Advise senior leaders and collaborate with other scientists to drive innovation Support innovative delivery program growth worldwide Write business and technical documents communicating business context, methods, and results to business leadership and other scientists Serve as a technical lead and mentor for junior scientists, ensuring a high science bar Serve as a technical reviewer for our team and related teams, including document and code reviews
US, NY, New York
The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of their ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. We are hiring an Economist on the team to develop the next generation of incrementality measurement products, capturing the effect of advertising in driving sales as well as the effects of measurement tools on advertiser engagement with Amazon. As an Economist on the team, you will lead the design, implementation, and validation of large-scale causal inference methodologies to capture these properties. You will communicate your results with science and business leaders, and partner with other scientists and engineers to carry solutions into production. Key job responsibilities Leverage deep expertise in causal inference to develop robust, causally grounded ads measurement solutions Disambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteria Work autonomously and write high quality technical documents Partner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projects Share and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferences Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and leaders Contribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's work Mentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring process