Economist

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Customer Trust and Partner Support (CTPS) builds trust with our Customers and Partners; scales through technology, analytics, and science; and serves as a Center of Excellence for Amazon. Our team’s mission is to provide Buyers a perfect and authentic order experience so that they can shop with confidence. We are seeking an Economist to play a key role in product quality related risk detection, and enforcement policy optimization.

The Economist will work closely with Scientists, Engineers and Product Managers to build econometric and ML models, plug them into our systems, and use them to prevent defects, understand the value of our programs and optimize our policies. They will design and conduct all phase of research of projects, from defining key research questions, aligning stakeholder requirements, designing and executing appropriate solutions, to communicating and implementing the model in our pipeline.

Key Responsibilities:
· Build econometric models or design experiments to estimate the impact of various policies on key business metrics to improve decision quality.
· Develop and deploy ML models to catch bad actors and improve product quality on Amazon.
· Leverage multiple data sources (internal data, survey data, etc) together to drive business insights.
· Work closely with stakeholders to define key business needs, and to design and deliver appropriate research solutions.
· Influencing key business decisions in how best to positively affect Customer experience through diverse stakeholder groups.
· Extract data for analysis and model development from large, complex data sets.
A successful candidate will have strong casual and predictive modelling capabilities, effective verbal/written communication skills, and have a passion to use data to drive business decisions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Applicants with experience applying advanced models to risk detection and operational optimization are strongly encouraged
· Strong background in statistics methodology, applications to business problems, and/or big data
· Ability to work independently in a fast-paced business environment
· Strong research track record
· Track record of executive level reporting that drive business decisions
· Track record of earning trust with diverse stakeholders

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· PhD in Economics, Statistics or related field
· Proven ability to apply independent research to solve real-world business and customer problems
· Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written formats