Amazon is hiring: Economist, Prime Video in New York

Job ID: 2864436 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientists and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems. As part of the Content Discovery and Experimentation Science team within Prime Video, you will leverage your expertise in causal inference and experimental design to make Prime Video the best-in-class digital video experience.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Build causal models and metrics that capture trade-off decisions when business and customer outcomes do not align
2. Partner with data scientists and product managers to integrate these metrics into Prime Video's experimentation tooling
3. Work with finance partners to ensure that the team's product metrics contribute to Prime Video's strategic business and financial objectives
4. Independently write technical and business documents to communicate ideas and proposals to various audiences
5. Educate and advocate for best practices in experimentation and how to use it for decision-making

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- PhD in economics or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of industry, consulting, government, or academic research experience
- Knowledge of at least one statistical software package such as R, Stata, Matlab, SAS
- Experience in prediction and forecasting in a research or industrial environment
- Experience with handling of large datasets

Posted: December 18, 2024 (Updated about 2 hours ago)

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