The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a experienced Economist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and developing innovative structural causal models. Working with our team of data scientists applied scientists and economists this economist will help redefine scalable marketing measurement at Amazon and its subsidiaries.
The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organizations mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The CMO team provides incrementality and efficiency measurement services to the marketing stakeholders across Amazons Stores suit of businesses. CMO applies industry leading causal inference models to measure omnichannel effectiveness of marketing campaigns from these businesses worldwide. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams decisions and therefore how Amazon customers see use and value their experience with Amazon. This is a highimpact role with opportunities to develop systems and analyze marketing effectiveness that contributes billions of dollars to the business. As an Economist you will be responsible for the design and development of the stateoftheart measurement and optimization models while collaborating with other scientists businesses marketers and software teams to solve key challenges facing the teams. Such challenges include measuring the incremental impact of multichannel marketing portfolios estimating the impact on long term interrelated customer actions and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing offtheshelf marketing measurement systems we are responsible for studying designing and building systems to serve Amazons suite of businesses. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of marketing measurement thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers scientists economists and software developers in the business.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will be a technical leader in Econometric research with significant scope impact and high visibility. You will own developing the next generation of MarketingMixMedia (MMM) models combining structural and reduced form econometric techniques. Your solution will deliver to business leaders accurate and actionable incrementality estimates to improve their marketing portfolio optimization. As a successful Economist you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data leads problem solving guides development of new frameworks writes code is excited about investigations and algorithms and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are proficient in structural models to solve business problems. You are a handson innovator who can contribute to advancing Marketing measurement technology in a B2C and B2B environment and push the limits on whats scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable customer and business impact. You will also coach and guide junior scientists in the team to grow the teams talent and scale the impact of your work.
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 with handling of large datasets
Experience conducting analysis of competition marketing strategies advertising and game theory
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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