What are the responsibilities and job description for the Economist, Prime Video position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Ever wish you could use your quantitative and critical thinking skills to influence business decisions? Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist 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
- Build causal models and metrics that capture trade-off decisions when business and customer outcomes do not align
- Partner with data scientists and product managers to integrate these metrics into Prime Video's experimentation tooling
- Work with finance partners to ensure that the team's product metrics contribute to Prime Video's strategic business and financial objectives
- Contribute to technical and business documents to communicate ideas and proposals to various audiences
- Educate and advocate for best practices in experimentation and how to use it for decision-making
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
PhD in Economics, Quantitative Marketing, Finance, or closely related field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of data analysis languages (e.g., R, Stata, Python, etc.) or other statistical software
- Experience in a postdoctoral position, consulting position, government position or academic research
- Experience with SQL
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Salary : $116,300 - $201,000
