Economists at Amazon will be expected to work directly with our Chief Economists and senior management on key business problems faced 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, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers, scientists, and business people engaged in a fast-paced mission to deliver these new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, technical invention, and performance
· PhD in Economics or highly related field (Marketing, Finance) · 5+ years of experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research · Strong causal estimation based on observational data · Strong technical communication to non-technical audience · Experience in optimization and microeconomic modeling · Experience working with very large real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data · Expertise in SQL and a programmatic scripting language for analysis (e.g. Python / R) · Applicants with considerably more experience are encouraged to apply · Demonstrated successful