Senior Economist, Economic Decision Science

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Amazon Business EU SARL (UK) Full time

PhD in Economics is a must
- Several years of experience in academia, private sector, consulting or government
- Working experience in Stata, R, Matlab, and/or Python
- Ability to distil and communicate relevant scientific insights to senior business leaders

Economic Decision Science is a central science team working across a variety of topics in the EU Stores business and beyond. We work closely EU business leaders to drive change at Amazon. We focus on solving long-term, ambiguous and challenging problems, while providing advisory support to help solve short-term business pain points. Key topics include pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. We tackle these issues by building novel econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business, financial, and system-level decision making. Our work is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with EU- and US-based interdisciplinary teams.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities
- Provide data-driven guidance and recommendations on strategic questions facing the EU Retail leadership
- Scope, design and implement version-zero (V0) models and experiments to kickstart new initiatives, thinking, and drive system-level changes across Amazon
- Build a long-term research agenda to understand, break down, and tackle the most stubborn and ambiguous business challenges
- Influence business leaders and work closely with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change

London, GBR
- Confirmed track record of academic publications
- Deep experience and knowledge of specific microeconometric empirical techniques (e.g. experimentation, difference-in-difference models, matching and doubly robust methods, demand estimation)
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data and/or models to drive organizational impact and change in a private or public sector context
- Ability to identify and successfully pitch the value of new ideas to business leaders



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