Economist II - AMZ5066
Posted on: 30 Jan 2021
Seattle, WA
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Entity: Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Title: Economist II
Location: Seattle, WA
Position Responsibilities:
Solve key business problems faced in retail, advertising, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations through application of economic theory. Apply frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, and online advertising. Build econometric models using data systems. Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to automated systems design. Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and IV) and forecasting (essential time series models). Leverage big data tools for data extraction. Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation 0000
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Position Requirements:
PhD degree or foreign equivalent in Economics or related quantitative field. Must have one year of research or work experience involving the following: performing private consulting, government consulting, or academic research; experience with program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems; utilizing Matlab, R, SAS or Stata; and utilizing SQL.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Please see job description and the position requirements above.
Amazon.com
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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IndustryInformation Technology
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No. of Employees647,500
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Website
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Jobs Posted12764
