Economist - Consumer Website

Amazon
Seattle - United States
S: Competitive

Amazon's planet-scale retail platform has created the largest marketplace in human history. Affording customers unprecedented product selection and merchants access to a global market, our team leverages sophisticated econometric, machine learning, and big data technologies to allow customers to discover the right product at the right price from the most trusted merchant billions of times every day. If you are looking for a career-defining opportunity on one of the most visible teams within Amazon, we'd love to hear from you.

Our success depends on our ability to manage and analyze the data that our customers generate. A successful candidate will have a great business sense, the ability to wrangle large amounts of data, and help make data-driven key strategic decisions that have immediate customer impact. Working within our science team and collaborating with the engineering and multiple business teams, you will have the opportunity to influence customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of multiple customer friendly features on Amazon.
We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon work directly with a diverse scientific team including computer scientists and statisticians, as well as other economists. You will build statistical models, using world-class data systems, to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. You will work directly with scientists and managers from different parts of the company on a variety of key business problems including retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, and operations. You will have access to some of the most-qualified scientists in their field and will have the opportunity to maintain an independent and active research agenda.

Basic Qualifications
* PhD in Economics by June 2015.
* Two or more years of experience in a postdoctoral position; or, two or more years of experience in consulting, government or academic research.

Preferred Qualifications
* Applicants with considerably more experience, including mid-career, are also strongly encouraged.
* Strong background in statistics methodology, applications to business problems, and/or big data.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment.
* Strong research track record.
* Effective verbal and written communications skills.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.

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