Sr Economist, Selling Partner Growth

Amazon

  • Seattle, WA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 14 days ago
DESCRIPTIONJoin us in the evolution of Amazon's Seller business! The Selling Partner 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 Senior Economist to lead us to identify data-driven insight and opportunities to improve our SP growth strategy and drive new seller success. As a successful Economist on our talented team of scientists and economists, you will solve complex problems to identify actionable opportunities, and collaborate with engineering, research, and business teams for future innovation. You need to have deep understanding on the business domain and have the ability to connect business with science. You are also strong in econometrics modeling and scientific foundation with the ability to collaborate with engineering to put models in production to answer specific business questions. You are an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will continue to contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research).Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Economist in the team, you will:
- Identify opportunities to improve SP growth and translate those opportunities into science problems via principled scientific solutions (e.g. ML, causal).
- Mentor and guide the applied scientists and economists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in science.
- Design and lead roadmaps for complex science projects to help SP have a delightful selling experience while creating long term value for our shoppers.
- Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
- Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
- Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalentPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems
- Experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research
- Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software
- Experience working with software developers and product managers
- Experience in econometrics (e.g., program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, or high dimensional problems), economic theory, and quantitative methodsAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.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 you're applying in isn't 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 $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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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