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Posted date: Mar 10, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Description
The World Wide Grocery Stores (WWGS) category management science team develops science products for pricing, promotion, and selection decision-making. We help drive strategic decision-making with business stakeholders and optimize for customer's grocery shopping experiences with Amazon.We are looking for an Economist intern with strong causal inference background skills to join our cross-domain group of economists, applied scientists, research scientists, and data scientists. We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to work with large and complicated data sets. Knowledge of econometrics, including time series data analysis, as well as familiarity with Python is necessary, and experience with SQL would be a plus.
These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis. You will learn how to build data sets and perform causal data analytics collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement.
Roughly 85% of interns from previous cohorts have converted to full time economist employment at Amazon. If you are interested, please apply and send your CV to our mailing list at econ-internship@amazon.com.
Key job responsibilities
In this job, you will learn to interact with Amazon's large grocery pricing and promotion data sets to help drive assessment related to grocery pricing elasticity data. You will also help identify model improvement opportunities. Understanding of counterfactual analysis and modeling is highly desirable, and we are flexible with the specific approach.
Familiarity with Python is highly recommended as it is the key tool to perform data analytics and interact with our core models.
About the team
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. Among other things, the Marketing and E-Commerce science team within Grocery Optimization and Analytics is responsible for measuring performance of marketing efforts and other large scale strategic programs (e.g., Grocery Subscriptions) across Amazon Grocery.
Qualifications
- PhD student in Economics (enrolled in 3rd year or more and not currently on the job market)Extended Qualifications
- Experience with Python- Experience working with large data sets
- Knowledge of econometrics and time series analysis
- Familiarity with SQL
- Attention to detail
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $55.91/hr in our lowest geographic market up to $96.63/hr 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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