Principal Economist Amazon Search
Principal Economist Amazon Search
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27-04-2025
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Yearly Salary
$ 170500 - 294700
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
27-04-2025
Job Description
The Amazon Search team creates powerful customerfocused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories our services go to work. We design develop and deploy high performance faulttolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.
This position will develop economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets develop a theoretic framework of the search process and customer frictions that lends to policy evaluation and create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering pricing and delivery optimization.
The ideal candidate will have outstanding Economics knowledge demonstrated strength in practical and policy relevant structural econometrics strong collaboration skills proven ability to lead highly ambiguous and large projects and a drive to deliver results. They will work closely with Economists Data / Applied Scientists Engineers and Product leads to integrate economic insights into policy and production systems Familiarity with informational retrieval and recommender systems is a plus but not required.
Key job responsibilities
This role is responsible for creating mechanisms (metrics models mechanism) that optimize search while accounting for effects on the entirety of the Amazon Stores. Some example projects include:
* Develop an economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets. Utilizing demand estimation internalizing spillovers (e.g. menu effects) and incorporating long term effects on customer beliefs. We want to embed economics into state of the art listwise ranking models.
* Develop a means of valuing newly launched products and how the impact all aspects of the experience (prices brand awareness or even referential utility).
* Develop a theoretic framework of the search process with a valuation of customer frictions that lends to evaluation of changes in the experience (aka a search/browse model)
* Create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering pricing and delivery optimization.
* PhD in Economics Computer Science or highly related field (Statistics Finance Math)
* 10 years of experience in industry consulting government or academic research
* Demonstrated expertise in structural econometrics
* Experience with big data and machine learning or data science
* Coding ability in a scripting language such as R or python or STATA
* Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve businessrelevant 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.
* Experience with informational retrieval and recommender systems.
* Applicants with considerably more and broader experience are also strongly encouraged.
* Strong track record in performing highquality analysis of data at scale.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $170500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $294700/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.
This position will develop economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets develop a theoretic framework of the search process and customer frictions that lends to policy evaluation and create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering pricing and delivery optimization.
The ideal candidate will have outstanding Economics knowledge demonstrated strength in practical and policy relevant structural econometrics strong collaboration skills proven ability to lead highly ambiguous and large projects and a drive to deliver results. They will work closely with Economists Data / Applied Scientists Engineers and Product leads to integrate economic insights into policy and production systems Familiarity with informational retrieval and recommender systems is a plus but not required.
Key job responsibilities
This role is responsible for creating mechanisms (metrics models mechanism) that optimize search while accounting for effects on the entirety of the Amazon Stores. Some example projects include:
* Develop an economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets. Utilizing demand estimation internalizing spillovers (e.g. menu effects) and incorporating long term effects on customer beliefs. We want to embed economics into state of the art listwise ranking models.
* Develop a means of valuing newly launched products and how the impact all aspects of the experience (prices brand awareness or even referential utility).
* Develop a theoretic framework of the search process with a valuation of customer frictions that lends to evaluation of changes in the experience (aka a search/browse model)
* Create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering pricing and delivery optimization.
* PhD in Economics Computer Science or highly related field (Statistics Finance Math)
* 10 years of experience in industry consulting government or academic research
* Demonstrated expertise in structural econometrics
* Experience with big data and machine learning or data science
* Coding ability in a scripting language such as R or python or STATA
* Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve businessrelevant 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.
* Experience with informational retrieval and recommender systems.
* Applicants with considerably more and broader experience are also strongly encouraged.
* Strong track record in performing highquality analysis of data at scale.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $170500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $294700/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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