Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Economist I

  • Internship
  • Seattle (King)

Job description



DESCRIPTION

The Cross Category and Cross Channel Marketing (XCM) Insights team is looking for an analytical and technically skilled economist to join our team. This position will be responsible for developing and supporting best-in-class modeling methodologies and supporting techniques to answer ambiguous business questions. The Economist needs apply the methodologies to various data sources to address the objective business questions. Often of the time, the economists need to merge various data from across the team together. The Economists need to model variations related with advertising, perception, and customers’ shopping behavior. Upon completion of statistical analysis, the Economist draws insights and produces reports by translating technical framework to business-oriented recommendations.

This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, vocally self-critical, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. He/She recognizes that the true measure of the success of the work product is based on the business impact the findings have had.

Responsibilities include:

· Developing econometric or machine learning models for ad hoc requests, projects and on-going measurements, and increasing efficiency by operationalizing data feeds from various data sources
· Identifying the right data sources and linking them together to address ambiguous business questions
· Using large datasets or experiments to make causal inferences or predictions
· Providing technical supports for designing and measuring randomized experiments
· Designing research, analysis, and modeling plans
· Interpreting data, writing reports, and making actionable recommendations
· Supporting consumer research projects both in the US and Internationally; these may be either primary research or secondary data projects
· Keys to success in this role include exceptional analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. The candidate will need to be able to extract insights from data and be able to clearly communicate appropriate triggers and actions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience with using SQL to write customer data queries within the Amazon environment is preferred
· Experience modeling observational data
· Experience with modelling large individual-level datasets
· Experience of finding practical solutions for ambiguous and challenging business questions
· Candidates with a Master’s degree or PhD with additional experience are preferred
·Familiar with Spark, the tool for large-scale data processing

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A minimum of 5 to 7 years within the research industry (designing and managing primary research, designing database queries, modeling, or synthesizing secondary research)
· Experience with various econometric models, including linear/logistic regression, panel models, diff-in-diff, propensity score matching, instrumental variable, duration model, etc.
· Experience with machine learning and double machine learning models, including random forest, lasso, ridge, etc.
· Ability to assimilate relevant data sources and hone in on key insights that drive business recommendations.
· Exceptional written and oral communication abilities
· Proficient with STATA, Python, Scala or R
· Proficient with Excel and MS Word
· Ph.D. degree in economics or the related science fields

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