Amazon Economist II

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Posted date: Oct 02, 2024

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Location: Seattle, WA

Estimated salary: $174,400
Range: $136,000 - $212,800

Description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

The Advertiser and Marketing Performance team is responsible for driving accurate and scalable measurement processes that will enable Marketing and Program Managers to accelerate continuous improvement across our marketing channels and advancing Advertiser performance at scale by focusing on insights and analytics that unlock Advertiser success.

As an economist on this team, you will:

-Apply your expertise in causal modeling and ML to develop systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions

-Design, execute, and analyze experiments to verify the efficacy of different scientific solutions in production

-Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation

-Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy

-Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data

-Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.

-Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

Qualifications

- PhD in economics or equivalent

Extended Qualifications

- 2+ years of industry, consulting, government, or academic research experience

- Knowledge of at least one statistical software package such as R, Stata, Matlab, SAS

- Experience in prediction and forecasting in a research or industrial environment

- Experience with handling of large datasets

Amazon 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.



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