Device Economics is looking for an economist experienced in causal inference empirical industrial organization forecasting and scaled systems to work on business problems to advance critical resource allocation and pricing decisions in the Amazon Devices org. Output will be included in scaled systems to automate existing processes and to maximize business and customer objectives.
Amazon Devices designs and builds Amazon firstparty consumer electronics products to delight and engage customers. Amazon Devices represents a highly complex space with 100 products across several product categories (ereaders Kindle tablets Fire Tablets smart speakers and audio assistants Echo wifi routers eero and video doorbells and cameras Ring and Blink) for sale both online and in offline retailers in several regions. The space becomes more complex with dynamic product offering with new product launches and new marketplace launches. The Device Economics team leads in analyzing these complex marketplace dynamics to enable sciencedriven decision making in the Devices org. Device Economics achieves this by combining economic expertise with macroeconomic trends and including both in scientific applications for use by internal analysts to provide deep understanding of customer preferences. Our teams outputs inform product development decisions investments in future product categories product pricing and promotion marketing and bundling across complementary product lines. We have achieved substantial impact on the Devices business and will achieve more.
Device Economics seeks an economist adept in measuring customer preferences and behavior with proven capacity to innovate scale measurement and drive rigor.
The candidate will work with Amazon Devices science leadership to refine science roadmaps models and priorities for innovation and simplification and advance adoption of insights to influence important resource allocation and prioritization decisions. Effective communication skills (verbal and written) are required to ensure success of this collaboration. The candidate must be passionate about advancing science for business and customer impact.
PhD in economics or equivalent
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
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