Economist, Ads Econ

Amazon • Culver City, CA

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About The Position

The AdsEcon Team within Digicon is looking for an experienced PhD economist. You will lead science projects using cutting edge econometrics and ML to advance science especially behind our advertising business.

Advertising is used daily to surface new selection and provide customers a wider set of product choices along their shopping journeys. The business is focused on generating value for shoppers as well as advertisers. Our team uses a combination of econometrics, machine learning, and data science to build disruptive products for all our Advertising products. We also generate insights to guide Amazon Advertising strategy, providing direct support to senior leadership.

Location could be Seattle, Los Angeles, or New York City.

Requirements

• PhD in economics or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Leverage econometrics and ML models to optimize advertising strategies on behalf of our customers.
• Influence key business and product decisions based on insights from models you develop.
• Identify and pitch new opportunities to leadership that are suggested by the data.
• Partner with other science leaders throughout Amazon to develop consistent and repeatable solutions.
• Design and analyze experiments (A/B testing etc.) to evaluate different strategies.
• Work with other scientists, software developers, and product partners to implement your solutions.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree