Amazon Prime is looking for a talented Economist to help manage our ever growing information needs and support analysis of increasingly complex business questions. At Amazon Prime, understanding customer data is paramount to our success in providing customers with relevant and enticing benefits such as fast free shipping, instant videos and music, in the US as well as an expanding number of international marketplaces. At Amazon you will be working in one of the world's largest and most exciting big-data environments. The Economist role occupies a unique space at the intersection of technology, machine-learning, econometrics, large-scale scientific computing, social science, and product management. As an Economist within Amazon Prime, you will work with our world-class business, economics, data science and engineering, and software development teams to propose and estimate novel statistical and econometric models to directly inform strategic decisions about characteristics of the Amazon
· PhD in Economics or a related field · Proven experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software (especially, discrete choice modeling), with a willingness to learn and develop additional skills in causal inference, structural econometrics, machine learning, large-scale scientific / distributed computing. · Proven record of bringing high impact statistical models to production, at scale · Willingness to learn Spark-Scala and/or PySpark · Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary science team of economists, applied scientists, software engineers,