Sr Manager, Economics & Applied Science, AWS Central Econ and Science
About the role
We are hiring a Senior Manager, Economics to the Sales Channels team within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Central Econ and Science team. The team partners with the business to optimize sales motions, partner programs, and incentives in multi-sided marketplaces. The problem space includes experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational research design, establishing telemetry for future measurement, and the development of recommendation systems and incentive plans. This role will support a strong team in both sourcing new workstreams and executing existing workstreams. We will consider Applied Scientists with experience working with economists for this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Interface directly with executives, product/program owners, science leadership, and science ICs to create multi-year research agendas that drive step-change growth for the business.
- Set and execute the priorities of a centralized team, stakeholder management, working backward and partnering to work across teams (earns trust).
- Disambiguate structural relationships, strong grounding in applied theory is key to success in this position.
- Own both production recommendation systems and feature generation for external systems, experience with production-level development is important.
- Shape the strategic direction of the AWS Central Economics and Science team and collaborate with other science teams at AWS, especially those working on developing policies.
About the team
Our group is technically rigorous and encourages ongoing academic conference participation and publication. Our leaders are here for you and to enable you to be successful. We believe in being servant leaders focused on influence: good data work has little value if it doesn’t translate into actionable insights that are rolled out and impact the real economy. We emphasize clear, consistent communication since being able to explain what we do ensures high success rates and lowers administrative churn. Also: we laugh a lot. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?