Senior Economist, International Seller Services

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Economics

This role involves applying causal inference, LLMs, and generative AI to economic research for Amazon's International Seller Services. The candidate will lead a team of economists and scientists, develop economic frameworks, and provide actionable insights to business leaders. Requires a PhD in economics and experience in analytics, applied economics, and team management.

What you'd actually do

  1. In this role, you will be a people manager and a technical leader in Econometric research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility.
  2. You will own developing the economics charter in ISS combining scientific methods with business needs.
  3. Your solution will deliver to business leaders accurate and actionable insights and recommendations to optimize and expand their business.
  4. As a successful Science Manager, you can navigate ambiguity, lead problem solving, guide development of new frameworks, and credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders.
  5. You will coach and guide scientists in your team across different job families including Economists, Data Scientists and Applied Scientists to grow the team’s talent and scale the impact of your work.

Skills

Required

  • PhD in economics
  • Causal inference
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI
  • Econometric research
  • Data analysis
  • Statistical modeling
  • Team leadership
  • People management

Nice to have

  • R
  • Python
  • STATA
  • AWS
  • Hadoop
  • Spark
  • Pig
  • Hive

What the JD emphasized

  • PhD in economics or equivalent
  • Experience in analytics and applied economics
  • Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software
  • Experience in applied economic analysis and with big data and machine learning or data science
  • Experience building and growing teams of economists or machine learning scientists
  • 7+ years of applied economics or statistics experience

Other signals

  • LLMs
  • generative AI
  • causal inference
  • economic methods
  • measurement systems