Economist, Prime Science, Prime Science

About the Role

Amazon Prime is looking for an ambitious Economist to help create econometric insights for world-wide Prime. Prime is Amazon's premiere membership program, with over 200M members world-wide. This role is at the center of many major company decisions that impact Amazon's customers, spanning a variety of industries and reflecting the diversity of Prime benefits. Prime Science creates insights that power these decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Create statistical tools that embed causal interpretations.
• Utilize massive data, state-of-the-art scientific computing, econometrics (causal, counterfactual/structural, experimentation), and machine-learning.
• Create insights from descriptive statistics, as well as from novel statistical and econometric models.
• Create internal-to-Amazon-facing automated scientific data products to power company decisions.
• Write strategic documents explaining how senior company leaders should utilize these insights to create sustainable value for customers.
• Work closely with a team of economists, applied scientists, data professionals (business analysts, business intelligence engineers), product managers, and software/data engineers.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Demonstrated capacity for building, estimating, and defending statistical models (e.g., causal, counterfactual, machine-learning) using software such as R, Python, or STATA.
• Willingness to learn and apply a broad set of statistical and computational techniques.
• Knowledge of SQL would be a plus.
• Knowledge of machine learning would be a plus.
• Knowledge of large-scale scientific computing using distributed computing infrastructures such as Spark-Scala or PySpark would be a plus.

Qualifications

• PhD in economics or equivalent.
• Demonstrated track-record of delivering projects well and on-time, preferably in collaboration with other team members.
• Very strong writing skills.
• Very strong emotional intelligence skills (for collaborative teamwork, often with colleagues in different functional roles).
• A growth mindset.
• Capacity for dealing with a high level of ambiguity.

About The Team

The Prime Economics organization is a cross-functional group of scientists (economists, research scientists, applied scientists), business intelligence engineers, software engineers, and product managers embedded within Prime. The team operates at the research frontier of utilizing data, econometrics, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning to form business strategies.