Principal Economist, Ads Econ

Amazon • Culver City, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Our products are 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.

We are looking for an experienced Economist who have a deep passion for building state-of-art causal models and ads measurement and optimization solutions, ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision, and execute strategic projects.

Requirements

• PhD in Economics, Computer Science, or highly related field (Statistics, Finance, Math)
• 10+ years in industry, consulting, government, or academic research
• Experience with big data and machine learning or data science
• Coding ability in a scripting language such as R or python or STATA

Nice To Haves

• Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems.
• Experience in building analytic or scientific data products or solutions.
• Written and verbal communications skills to convey complicated process and systems to business partners and senior leadership.
• Applicants with considerably more and broader, experience, are also strongly encouraged.
• Strong track record in performing high-quality analysis of data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and analysis of large-scale experiments to measure advertising effectiveness across Amazon's advertising products
• Develop novel causal inference and econometric methodologies to solve attribution and incrementality measurement challenges at scale
• Invent new optimization frameworks that translate measurement insights into actionable bidding, targeting, and budget allocation strategies for advertisers
• Define the long-term science roadmap for ads measurement and optimization, identifying high-impact research directions and driving alignment across engineering, product, and science teams
• Build and refine structural and reduced-form models that quantify the causal impact of advertising on consumer behavior, sales, and brand outcomes
• Partner with engineering teams to operationalize econometric models into production systems serving millions of advertisers
• Mentor and develop a team of economists and applied scientists, raising the bar on methodological rigor and scientific impact
• Influence senior leadership through clear communication of complex economic concepts, shaping investment decisions and product strategy
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and business leaders to translate business problems into well-defined economic questions with scalable 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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