Economist II - AMZ27751.1

About the role

Work with the chief economist and/or senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and/or operations. Apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas.

Responsibilities

• Build econometric models using data systems
• Apply economic theory to solve business problems
• Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems
• Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and IV) and forecasting (essential time series models)
• Leverage big data tools for data extraction
• Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon

Basic Qualifications

• PhD degree or foreign equivalent in Economics, Finance, or a related field
• Two years of post-doctoral research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation
• One year of research or work experience in the following skills:
  • Private consulting, government, or academic research
  • Use of program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems
  • Use of Matlab, R, SAS or Stata
  • Knowledge of SQL

Pay

Salary range: $136,000 - $184,000 per year. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.