Senior Economist, International Seller Services

About the role

Join Amazon's International Seller Services (ISS) Economics team and shape how millions of sellers succeed in the worldwide marketplace through causal inference, LLMs, and generative AI. You'll combine rigorous economic methods with real business impact, building the frameworks and measurement systems that define the future of Amazon's seller services.

Key job responsibilities

• Owning the development of the economics charter in ISS, combining scientific methods with business needs.
• Delivering accurate and actionable insights and recommendations to optimize and expand the business for business leaders.
• Navigating ambiguity, leading problem-solving, guiding the development of new frameworks, and credibly interfacing between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Pushing the limits on what’s scientifically possible with a razor-sharp focus on measurable business impact.
• Coaching and guiding 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.

About the team

The International Seller Services (ISS) Economics team shapes Amazon's global seller ecosystem through sophisticated economic analysis and data-driven insights. Our mission is to transform how Amazon empowers millions of sellers to succeed in the worldwide digital marketplace.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD in economics or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.
• Experience with scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, or R)
• 7+ years of applied economics or statistics experience

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Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at here.