Senior Economist, Featured Merchant Algorithm

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Do you ever struggle to explain your work? How's this: "Do you shop at Amazon?
Do you know that box that says 'Add to Cart' and shows a price? Our team owns
the model which picks that offer and the customer experience around the display
of the offer price and the elements surrounding the 'Add to Cart' button which
inform a purchase decision. We pick and display offers several billion times a
day across all surfaces (mobile app, mobile web, desktop, Alexa
shopping) worldwide.

Our mission is to be the world’s first and most
trusted choice for every customer on earth to discover and evaluate any product
or service.
Our team blends machine learning models to rank and select the best offer from
the most trusted merchant for all products sold on Amazon along with a
world-class front-end user experience for offer comparison to our global
customers. We are responsible for the experiences and services that enable
developers, including our own, to create
tailored shopping experiences for every customer, product, business and
marketplace offered by Amazon. We build scalable and extensible frameworks which
allow for many teams at Amazon to innovate within the Offers Experience
in a federated manner.

If you are passionate about influencing and delivering the next-generation
Amazon customer buying experience, we want to meet you.

We are looking for a Senior Economist to join one of the most impactful and
visible teams in Amazon.
In this role you will work with business stakeholders throughout Amazon and
provide technical direction and business expertise to strategize and help launch
new businesses and features for our customers. You will use data to justify
customer friendly decisions and present customer and financial impact of the
changes we make to our stakeholders. You will work closely with other
economists, engineers, product managers, applied scientists, TPMs, managers, and
senior leadership team to understand and drive business impact. Successful
candidates will have experience working on multiple projects with different
stakeholders, make data driven decisions, have strong communication skills to
interact with executives, non-technical and technical individuals and have a
high technical bar along with a passion
for people and project management. This is an opportunity to work with a team
that drives one of the most coveted real estate in the E-commerce, the Amazon
‘Buy Box’ on Amazon Product Detail Page, Amazon Search Page , multiple buying
widgets etc. on the Amazon desktop, mobile and tablet environments.

Requirements

• PhD in economics or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Experience in analytics and applied economics
• Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems
• Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software
• Experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research

Benefits

• equity
• sign-on payments
• medical
• financial

What This Job Offers

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