Join us in the evolution of Amazons Seller business! The Selling Partner (SP) Growth organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business product and engineering we catalyze SP growth with comprehensive and accurate data unique insights and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential supported by Amazon tools and resources.
We are looking for a Principal Economist to lead us to drive the science vision of our SP growth strategy and drive new seller success. As a successful Principal economist on our talented team of applied scientists and economists you will articulate the science vision exert crossorg influence and drive delivery through collaborating with engineering research and business teams for future innovation. You need to be a big thinker who loves brining clarity for ambiguous problem statements and a strong collaborator who partners well with colleagues with different background and disciplines. We prefer candidates with strong causal ML knowledge. You will also continue to contribute to the research community by working with scientists across Amazon as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers
Key job responsibilities As a Principal Economist in the team you will: Identify opportunities to improve SP growth and articulate a bold vision that drives step changes in business Work with our various business stakeholders and technical partners to drive alignment on executable science roadmap Advocate for the team and communicate at the executive level Mentor and guide the applied scientists and economists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of science rigor Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
PhD in Economics or closely related field. 8 years of experience in industry consulting government or academic research post graduate school Expertise in causal inference
Strong background in econometrics statistics methodology machine learning applications to business problems Track record of connecting ambiguous business problems to science via driving a coherent science vision Experience with programming languages such as Python is a plus. Ability to work in a fastpaced business environment. Effective verbal and written communications skills.
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