Economist

Amazon.com
Seattle - United States
S: Industry competitive + equity

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.

Economists at Amazon have the opportunity to partner with senior economists at Amazon including chief economist Pat Bajari. You will also engage with senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. Amazon economists will apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas. You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company. The economics community at Amazon has grown tremendously in the past few years and we are recruiting for roles company-wide to satisfy demand for high caliber economists.

Salaries will be competitive and will include equity compensation.

Please forward a cover letter, curriculum vita, research sample and letters of recommendation to econ-jobs-2015@amazon.com. In your cover letter, please also indicate your preferred start date. We will consider candidates with start dates as early as October 2015.

We recruit on a rolling basis and Amazon will be at the AEA/ASSA conference in San Francisco but will certainly consider candidates prior to the January 2016 conference.

Please visit http://www.amazoneconomistjobs.com/ to learn more!

Basic Qualifications
• PhD in Economics or anticipating completion of a PhD Economics by August 2016


Preferred Qualifications
• Two to three years of post-PhD experience in private sector, consulting, government, or in academic research
• Strong background in econometrics (e.g., program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and/or high dimensional problems), economic theory, and quantitative methods
• Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment
• Strong applied research track record in industrial organization, applied econometrics, labor economics, development economics, public economics, applied macroeconomics, quantitative marketing, or a related field
• Hands on experience with at least one of the following: Matlab, R, SAS, Stata
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, Ruby, and /or Big Data processing platforms such Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark is a plus.
• Experience operating in a Linux/Unix environment preferred.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills


Amazon is an Equal-Opportunity Employer


Application Instructions
Please forward a cover letter, curriculum vita with the file name as your name, research sample and letters of recommendation to:

econ-jobs-2015@amazon.com

In your cover letter, please also indicate your preferred start date. We will consider candidates with start dates as early as October 2015.

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