Economist, Customer Experience and Business Trends

Are you passionate about leveraging data and economics to enhance customer experience across Amazons diverse businesses The Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) organization is seeking an Economist to join our Benchmarking Economics Analytics and Measurement (BEAM) team. Our mission is to drive customer experience improvements through innovative economic modeling advanced analytics and scalable scientific solutions.

As an Economist on our team you will collaborate with senior management business stakeholders scientists engineers and economics leadership to solve complex business challenges across Amazons business lines. Youll develop sophisticated econometric models using our world-class data systems applying diverse methodologies spanning causal inference machine learning and generative this fast-paced environment youll tackle challenging problems that directly influence strategic decision-making and drive measurable business impact.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop economic theory and deliver causal machine learning models at scale
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into scalable solutions
- Write effective business narratives and scientific papers to communicate to both business and technical audiences
- Drive data-driven decision making to improve customer experience

About the team
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience globally. We are a team of builders that develop products services ideas and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings for almost every business at Amazon for every customer (e.g. consumers developers sellers/brands employees investors streamers gamers).

Our approach is based on determining the customer need along with problem solving and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team made up of a diverse set of profiles skills and backgrounds including: Product Managers Software Developers Computer Vision experts Solutions Architects Data Scientists Business Intelligence Engineers Business Analysts Risk Managers and more.

- 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 in prediction and forecasting in a research or industrial environment
- Experience with handling of large datasets

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 VA Arlington - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually