Economist, Prime Video

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • $129,200 - $174,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems. As part of the Content Discovery and Experimentation Science team within Prime Video, you will leverage your expertise in causal inference and experimental design to make Prime Video the best-in-class digital video experience.

Requirements

• PhD in economics or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of data analysis languages (e.g., R, Stata, Python, etc.) or other statistical software
• Experience in a postdoctoral position, consulting position, government position or academic research
• Experience with SQL

Responsibilities

• Build causal models and metrics that capture trade-off decisions when business and customer outcomes do not align
• Partner with data scientists and product managers to integrate these metrics into Prime Video's experimentation tooling
• Work with finance partners to ensure that the team's product metrics contribute to Prime Video's strategic business and financial objectives
• Contribute to technical and business documents to communicate ideas and proposals to various audiences
• Educate and advocate for best practices in experimentation and how to use it for decision-making

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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