Manager, Senior Economist, Marketing Measurement
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The MAPS organizations mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The MAPS team provides incrementality efficiency measurement services and decision support to marketing stakeholders across Amazons Stores suit of businesses. MAPS applies industry leading causal inference models and designs experiments to measure omni-channel 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. As a Science Manager you will lead a team of scientists to develop state-of-the-art 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 multi-channel marketing portfolios estimating the impact on long term inter-related customer actions and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf 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 people manager and a technical leader in Econometric research with significant scope impact and high visibility. You will own developing the next generation of Causal Marketing-Mix-Media (MMM) models combining experimental evidence with observational econometric techniques. Your solution will deliver to business leaders accurate and actionable incrementality estimates and recommendations to optimize their marketing portfolio. As a successful Science Manager you can navigate ambiguity lead problem solving guide development of new frameworks and credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are an innovator who can push the limits on whats scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable business impact. You will coach and guide scientists in your team across different job families including Economists Data Scientists and Applied Scientists to grow the teams talent and scale the impact of your work.
- PhD in economics or equivalent
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Experience hiring and leading experienced scientists as well as having a successful record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a successful career track
- 5 Years of experience building large-scale Causal Inference and AI solutions
- Experience in applied economic analysis and with big data and machine learning or data science
- Experience building and growing teams of economists or machine learning scientists
- 5 years of people management experience
- Experience with big data technologies such as AWS Hadoop Spark Pig Hive etc.
- Experience with scripting language (e.g. Python Java or R)
- 5 years of applied economics or statistics experience
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 175100.00 - 236900.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Forecasting
- Python
- Spss
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Stata
- Research Experience
- Statistical Software
- Survey Design
- Calculus
- SAS
- Statistics
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