Senior Economist, Economic Decision Science
4 weeks ago
We are looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale.
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
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Experience applying empirical techniques in reduced-form causal analysis, empirical industrial organization, and/or machine learning
- Ability to distil and communicate relevant scientific insights to senior business leaders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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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