Device Economics is looking for a senior economist experienced in causal inference machine learning empirical industrial organization and scaled systems to work on business problems to advance critical resource allocation and pricing decisions in the Amazon Devices org. Senior roles lead vision setting methods innovation and act as thought leaders to Devices finance and business executives. 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 through scientific applications that provide deep understanding of customer preferences. Our teams outputs inform product development decisions investments in future product categories and product pricing and promotion. We have achieved substantial impact on the Devices business and will achieve more.
Device Economics seeks an experienced economist adept in measuring customer preferences and behaviors with proven capacity to innovate scale measurement drive rigor and mentor talent.
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 Experience in industry consulting government or academic research
Experience in analytics and applied economics Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve businessrelevant problems Experience in building statistical models using R Python STATA or a related software
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