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Job ID: 2846125 | Amazon.com Services LLC The Mission of Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is to "Build world-class general-purpose intelligence services that benefit every Amazon business and humanity." Are you a data enthusiast? Are you a creative big thinker who is passionate about using data to direct decision-making and solve complex and large-scale challenges? If so, then this position is for you! We are looking for a motivated individual with strong analytical and communication skills to join us. ...

Senior Data Scientist, AWS Global Services Capacity Planning Job ID: 2846859 | Amazon Web Services, Inc. Do you have proven analytical capabilities to identify business opportunities, develop predictive models and optimization algorithms to help us build state of the art Support organization? At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Amazon Web Services, Inc. provides services for broad range of applications including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), security, and application development, deployment, and management. AWS Global Services Capacity Planning team is looking for a strong, talented Senior Data Scientist to model contact and volume forecasting, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistics, machine learning, attrition forecast and combinatorial optimization problems to drive business and operational improvements. You are passionate about building solutions that will help drive a more efficient operations network and optimize cost. In this role, you will partner with data engineering, tooling team, operations, training, workforce management and finance teams, driving optimization and prediction solutions across the network influencing the long-term strategy of the business. We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Data Scientist with proven abilities to build and manage modeling projects, attrition forecast, forecasting solutions, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded.You are an expert in the areas of data science, forecasting, optimization, machine learning and statistics, and is comfortable facilitating ideation and working from concept through execution. You are customer obsessed, innovative, independent, results-oriented and enjoys working in a fast-paced growing organization. An interest in operations, process improvement is helpful. The ability to embrace this ambiguity and work with a highly distributed team of experts is critical. While this is a small team, there is opportunity to own globally impactful work and grow your career in technical, programmatic or people leadership. You will likely to work in Python or R, building forecasting, predictive and optimization models. Your problem solving ability, knowledge of data models and ability to drive results through ambiguity are more important to us. About the team About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. ...

Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) is looking for an outstanding Senior Data Scientist to join the AWS International Product Management and Expansion Strategy team. This is your opportunity to be a core part of the AWS team that has a direct impact on global strategic planning and decision-making.Today, AWS serves customers globally from over 190 countries through multiple infrastructure Regions. From these Regions, AWS offers over 200 fully featured cloud services which redefine business agility, reduce the cost of IT infrastructure, and elevate the role of IT as an enabler of business organizations. As a Senior Data Scientist on this team, you will get an exciting opportunity to structure and solve challenging business problems that help develop long-term growth strategies for AWS’s international business. We are looking for a seasoned professional with strong experience with operations research and/or AI/machine learning especially those with experience in seeking deep insights around customer adoption patterns globally. In this role, you will study patterns and structure models to quickly approach ambiguous problems with mathematical models that drive the adoption of AWS long-term to meaningfully impact AWS’s growth. To support their proposals, candidates should be able to mine large data sets independently, analyze patterns with any necessary programming and statistical techniques in a fast-paced environment. You will work closely with the business and technical teams to analyze many non-standard and unique business problems, and innovate with creative-problem solving to deliver actionable output to stakeholders. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with a working knowledge of cloud technology, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, a penchant to explain findings backed by sound statistical techniques, synthesize the business impact of findings, and have an ability to collaborate as well as effectively influence cross-functional teams. Come help us make history!Key job responsibilitiesThe key strategic objectives of this role include, but are not limited to:• Lead logical thinking to quickly turn high level ambiguous business problems into mathematical models • Help identify causal elements behind business trends to drive solution approaches that will let AWS expand faster internationally • Provide thought leadership to identify new correlations between emerging technology trends and global customer adoption to establish intuitive, but authoritative models that forecast or estimate impact to the business • Answer complex business questions around downstream impact and customer adoption patterns with statistical techniques/business rigor • Work with regional strategy managers to distill business trends unique to geographies • Develop Excel/Python/AWS AI/ML tool-based models to provide user friendly insights for business stakeholders and provide short- or long-term business projections that reflect cloud computing adoptionAbout the teamAbout AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree in econometrics, statistics, industrial engineering, operations research, optimization, data mining, analytics, or equivalent quantitative field- 5+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience- 2+ years of demonstrated experience with problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis- 5+ years of recent experience in scripting languages like Python, Perl, Rust ...

Senior Data Scientist, PubTech Data, Insights & Analytics Job ID: 2827935 | Amazon.com Services LLC Amazon is continuing to invest in its Advertising business to tap into the growing online advertising market. The Publisher Technologies team builds and operates extensible services that empower 1P Publishers to improve the monetization of their customer experiences, along with the experiences themselves. We bias toward standards-based and flexible designs that allow Publishers the ability to invent on top of our solutions and to interoperate well with other advertising technology providers; both internal and external. ...

Senior Data Scientist, Ring Data Science and Engineering Job ID: 2775999 | Amazon.com Services LLC Come build the future of smart security with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of devices and services designed to keep people close to what’s important? ...

Senior Data Scientist, SCOT Inventory Placement Job ID: 2845021 | Amazon.com Services LLC Come and be a part of Amazon's amazing growth story! If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart, passionate team members, this might be the role for you! Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) powers Amazon’s fulfillment network, determining how much of a given product is needed at locations around the world in order to ensure product availability while maintaining optimal inventory levels at each storage location. This includes strategically placing vendor orders and moving inventory across our network to serve customer demand as quickly as possible at reduced cost. ...

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. Over 2 million Sellers sell on Amazon Marketplace and we obsess over providing world class support to them.Across stores, an unprecedented wave of legislations started impacting our selling partner experience, constraining selection and jeopardizing growth. To address this, we are seeking a diligent and experienced De-risking Program Manager to join our team and support with the implementation of the Three Lines of Defense (3LoD) process specifically tailored to address account and product compliance regulations impacting our 3P business worldwide. As the De-risking Manager, you will play a crucial role in identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal risks associated with one or more program level components, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and helping de-risk sellers by working across stakeholders to build awesome seller experience which requires least amount of effort for sellers. This is a unique opportunity to manage a product and program setup that has multi-billion-dollar impact for Amazon. The candidate should have strong communication skills to work closely with stakeholders across multiple stores and functions. This is a high visibility role across WW Director and VP groups at Amazon and will own the VP level goal to deliver seller GMS de-risking at 95% pre-enforcement.In this role you will:• Initiate, define, plan and manage the roll out of the program features and enhancements required to de-risking process and tools based on requirements across legislations in the account and product compliance space • Own creation and alignment of seller enforcement strategy for high-impact regulations across legal, policy programs, 3P & CT (Customer Trust) leadership stakeholders• Work with global account management teams to drive seller outreach and de-risking goals• Own weekly and monthly reporting on the state of the initiatives you own. Utilize metrics to deep-dive into issues, shape risk appetite of leadership & and uncover business-driving trends and patterns• Manage engagement with multiple stakeholders in US, China and EU including Tax, Legal, Operations, Tech, Compliance, Customer Trust Policy programs and FBA.Key job responsibilities1. Align on enforcement strategy with Director (& above) leadership – Enforcement action type, tool, RACI matrix etc.2. Launch & track key controls – Impact to Strategic Sellers/HVL/AHA, PRE, reason code setup, classification audits, etc.3. Onboarding to deliver standard seller experience through Account health dashboard, account health rating, communications4. Deploy all de-risking channels (8+), tracking derisking, weekly leadership reporting, monthly goal reportingA day in the lifeBe the Voice of Seller as teams across Amazon plan implementation of new regulations, Present & negotiate on enforcement strategy on seller's behalf, Partner with teams to implement derisking channels across regulations, Track rate of derisking for each regulation at channel/seller/store level, Dive deep on seller feedback on Amazon's pre & post enforcement experience and drive process, program, technology improvements.About the teamThe Selling Partner Trust & Account Compliance team strives to ensure that sellers feel confident in growing their business with Amazon. We do this by reducing unnecessary or excessive disruptions to sellers’ businesses and improving transparency into our actions. We value individual expression, respect different opinions, and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon’s mission of being Earth’s most customer-centric company.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of program or project management experience- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership- 5+ years of managing stakeholders in cross-functional project experience ...

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and the world’s best employer. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Do you want to play an instrumental role in leading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies for Amazon’s high growth environment? Here’s your opportunity! We are seeking an influential and experienced DEI business partner to execute against the DEI strategy for our General and Administrative organizations (including Finance and Global Business Services (FGBS), Global Communications and Community Impact (GCCI), Legal and Public Policy, and People Experience and Technology (PXT)) by partnering with leaders to help us grow a diverse global workforce while fostering equity and inclusion. You’ll use your skills to work both across the business as well as deep dive with specific teams to help them identify opportunities and apply best practices that achieve change. You’ll partner with senior leadership teams to design, coordinate, track and measure our DEI solutions and overall plan. Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilitiesAs part of the G&A Inclusive Experiences and Technology (IXT) team, you will work closely with G&A business leaders and colleagues across PXT (including HR business partners, talent leads, and recruiting) to help organizational leaders set, track, and achieve DEI goals. As a DEI business partner, you will assess the current state and identify best practices to move the business forward. You will also partner with Amazon’s global IXT team to drive corporate-wide programs at scale into our organization. You will measure and communicate results against committed DEI actions, so that we can ensure meaningful progress toward DEI and business goals. Ability to assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs as they implement DEI programs is critical. Successful candidates will have experience analyzing and leveraging DEI data to set priorities and understand challenges, advising and coaching leaders, earning trust with customers, supporting equitable talent processes, and exhibiting the ability to invent and simplify to translate best practices and research into action. You should not only be passionate about delivering DEI solutions but obsessed with driving meaningful results that ultimately impact our customers. We like to work hard, have fun, and make history while we improve our business, our people, our culture, and - as a result - the experience for our customers. A day in the lifeA day in the lifeIn this role, you will: · Earn trust across a range of levels and disciplines to establish yourself and the team as a trusted DEI Subject Matter Expert· Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs as DEI programs are implemented · Translate research and best practices in DEI into readily consumable resources and programs aligned to business need · Bring innovative solutions to broaden our DEI portfolio and drive measurable business results · Create, maintain, and disseminate resources in a variety of formats across all levels of the organization · Dive deep with quantitative and qualitative data analyses to identify the root causes of problems through an expanded, holistic view and long-term perspective and think big to develop scalable solutions · Connect and inspire people to drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple groups with competing priorities · Regularly measure, inspect, analyze and provide insights regarding areas of strength and opportunity, and provide consultative support to identify interventions and initiatives for improvement · Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills to motivate and influence senior leaders, stakeholders and peer groups· Provide leadership and coaching, when appropriate, to managers, Directors and VPs via one-to-one and group interactionsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s Degree 5+ years’ experience designing and delivering DEI strategies and initiatives that increase workforce diversity, equity and inclusion 5+ years’ project or program management experience Experience delivering projects and programs for large, global, cross-functional audiences Experience developing learning resources and services ...

We are looking for a Program Manager with experience navigating the permit process for retail construction projects including health departments and scheduling internal and external design resources. In this role you will collaborate with internal cross-functional teams and architect and engineers of record to document permit requirements and build initial project design timelines for the development of new and remodel retail projects. You are right for this role if you are scrappy, agile and love learning; are customer obsessed and thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. The successful candidate possesses the ability to build processes and mechanisms that hold team members accountable to deliver projects on time. You model best practices in communications, identifying critical paths, managing long-term risks and escalations, and driving resolutions. Keys to this role are outstanding project management and communication skills, both written and verbal as well as the ability to complete complex tasks and projects quickly with little to no guidance. We want to talk to you if you are obsessed with building scalable process and learning from previous projects to enable continuous improvement and unlock efficiencies across design team members. Key job responsibilities• Ability to understand complex permitting issues; assists with resolution and project deliverables. • Drives the use of best practices; creates mechanisms for efficiency. • Documents and reports on design process, workflows and timelines. • Tracks permit status across all projects ensuring roadblocks are removed quickly. • Contributes to goal setting, Operational-Planning cycles and design roadmap. • Manages projects with high levels of ambiguity and complexity, frequently navigating change.• Influences and educates internal teams, stakeholder and partner teams on permit process and timelines.• Uses expertise and judgement to capture the right data to inform permit duration and strategy. • Works with Store Design team on project specific reporting and design milestones including permitting. • Shares key learnings and best practices with team members in a comprehensive, concise and engaging way.• Makes trade-offs weighing short and long-term considerations to find a path forward in difficult situations. • Demonstrates flexibility and adaptable to changing work environment, effectively dealing with varying workload requirements; can shift gears comfortably, manages competing demands, delays or unexpected events.• Not afraid to fail and share learning for maximum benefit across the design studio. • Actively works to create an inclusive and collaborative studio environment.About the teamThis role is part of the Store Design Implementation team which is made up of store designers who are split into regional teams. This role is an autonomous role who will report to the Sr. Manager, Store Design. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ years of retail permitting, interior design or architecture work experience- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design or relevant field- Experience with building and health codes- Facilitator to ensure permits are obtained quickly and efficiently leveraging deep understanding of local building codes and zoning requirements.- Experience working across all design phases through Construction Administration- Ability to work effectively in an extremely fast paced, ambiguous environment- Proven track record of owning projects from start to finish; self-starter and self-directed- Proactive and flexible attitude; willingness to take an “all hands-on deck” approach- 30% travel expected ...

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionCompany Description “We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. ...

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent ...

Amazon Stores Ads Science team is looking for a Senior Economist to help translate cutting-edge econometrics and machine learning research into production solutions. The individual will have the opportunity to shape the technical and strategic vision of a highly ambiguous problem space at the intersection of Amazon’s Stores and Advertising businesses, and deliver measurable business impacts via cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. Our advertising products are strategically important to Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving the long-term growth. The mission of the Stores Ads Science team is to identify opportunities to jointly optimize Amazon’s Stores and Advertising business, by enhancing the usage of advertising signals in Stores’ decision-making and vice versa to drive the long-term economic value to shoppers, sellers/vendors, and Amazon. Some of our work include measuring ads impact and shopping content incrementality to improve shopper experience, developing the science of explaining seller/vendor inter-related decisions between Stores and Ads (e.g.: pricing, Sponsored Ads participation) to optimize fees and incentives, and making Stores’ traffic acquisition strategies aware of shoppers’ and advertisers’ onsite advertising behavior.We partner closely with tech and product teams across Stores and Advertising, and are constantly advancing experimentation methodology to accelerate science development and quantify business impacts. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. Key job responsibilities- Function as a technical lead to shape the strategic vision and the science roadmap of a highly ambiguous problem space- Develop economic theory and deliver econometrics and machine learning models to unlock the new opportunities for jointly optimizing sellers’/vendors’ decision-making between Stores and Ads- Design, execute, and analyze experiments to verify the efficacy of different scientific solutions in production- Partner with cross-team technical contributors (scientists, software engineers, product managers) to implement the solution in production- Write effective business narratives and scientific papers to communicate to both business and technical audiences, including the most senior leaders in the companyBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent ...

Job ID: 2845562 | Amazon.com Services LLC Amazon Stores Ads Science team is looking for a Senior Economist to help translate cutting-edge econometrics and machine learning research into production solutions. The individual will have the opportunity to shape the technical and strategic vision of a highly ambiguous problem space at the intersection of Amazon’s Stores and Advertising businesses, and deliver measurable business impacts via cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. Our advertising products are strategically important to Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving the long-term growth. The mission of the Stores Ads Science team is to identify opportunities to jointly optimize Amazon’s Stores and Advertising business, by enhancing the usage of advertising signals in Stores’ decision-making and vice versa to drive the long-term economic value to shoppers, sellers/vendors, and Amazon. Some of our work include measuring ads impact and shopping content incrementality to improve shopper experience, developing the science of explaining seller/vendor inter-related decisions between Stores and Ads (e.g.: pricing, Sponsored Ads participation) to optimize fees and incentives, and making Stores’ traffic acquisition strategies aware of shoppers’ and advertisers’ onsite advertising behavior. We partner closely with tech and product teams across Stores and Advertising, and are constantly advancing experimentation methodology to accelerate science development and quantify business impacts. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. Key job responsibilities - Function as a technical lead to shape the strategic vision and the science roadmap of a highly ambiguous problem space - Develop economic theory and deliver econometrics and machine learning models to unlock the new opportunities for jointly optimizing sellers’/vendors’ decision-making between Stores and Ads - Design, execute, and analyze experiments to verify the efficacy of different scientific solutions in production - Partner with cross-team technical contributors (scientists, software engineers, product managers) to implement the solution in production - Write effective business narratives and scientific papers to communicate to both business and technical audiences, including the most senior leaders in the company ...

Senior Economist, Marketing Measurements, CMO Science The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a Senior Economist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and developing cutting-edge ML models. Working with our team of data scientists, applied scientists, research scientists, and economists, this leader will help redefine scalable marketing measurement at Amazon and its subsidiaries. ...

We are seeking a senior scientist with demonstrated experience in A/B testing along with related experience with observational causal modeling (e.g. synthetic controls, causal matrix completion). Our team owns "causal inference as a service" for the Pricing and Promotions organization; we run A/B tests on new pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX algorithms and, where experimentation is impractical, conduct observational causal studies.Key job responsibilitiesWe are seeking a senior scientist to help envision, design, and build the next generation of pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX for Amazon. On our team, you will work at the intersection of economic theory, statistical inference, and machine learning to design and implement in production new statistical methods for measuring causal effects of an extensive array of business policies.This position is perfect for someone who has a deep and broad analytic background, is passionate about using mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to make a real difference. You should be familiar with modern tools for data science and business analysis and have experience coding with engineers to put projects into production. We are particularly interested in candidates with research background in experimental statistics.A day in the life- Discuss with business problems with business partners, product managers, and tech leaders- Brainstorm with other scientists to design the right model for the problem at hand- Present the results and new ideas for existing or forward looking problems to leadership- Dive deep into the data- Build working prototypes of models- Work with engineers to implement prototypes in production- Analyze the results and review with partners About the teamWe are a team of scientists who design and implement the econometrics powering pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent- Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software ...

Senior Economist, Pricing and Promotions Job ID: 2709645 | Amazon.com Services LLC We are seeking a senior scientist with demonstrated experience in A/B testing along with related experience with observational causal modeling (e.g. synthetic controls, causal matrix completion). Our team owns "causal inference as a service" for the Pricing and Promotions organization; we run A/B tests on new pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX algorithms and, where experimentation is impractical, conduct observational causal studies.Key job responsibilities We are seeking a senior scientist to help envision, design, and build the next generation of pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX for Amazon. On our team, you will work at the intersection of economic theory, statistical inference, and machine learning to design and implement in production new statistical methods for measuring causal effects of an extensive array of business policies.This position is perfect for someone who has a deep and broad analytic background, is passionate about using mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to make a real difference. You should be familiar with modern tools for data science and business analysis and have experience coding with engineers to put projects into production. We are particularly interested in candidates with research background in experimental statistics.A day in the life - Discuss business problems with business partners, product managers, and tech leaders- Brainstorm with other scientists to design the right model for the problem at hand- Present the results and new ideas for existing or forward-looking problems to leadership- Dive deep into the data- Build working prototypes of models- Work with engineers to implement prototypes in production- Analyze the results and review with partnersAbout the team We are a team of scientists who design and implement the econometrics powering pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX. ...

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of a cross-functional team. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.Key job responsibilitiesA Senior Economist in this team leads initiatives that make a significant measurable impact on the strategic goals of the business through empowering the PV organization to make smart, long-termdecisions through the use of both online (within experiment) and offline metrics (post-predicted) that drive economically sustainable growth for Amazon. They own best in class casual models and metrics that unblock trade-off decisions when business and customer outcomes do not align.Sr. Economist in this team partners with finance to align PV’s economic models with the business financial P&L models, and works closely with Product Managers and Business to bridge the gap between science and business. They partner with data engineers and central teams to standardize economic data definitions and integrate the LTV measures directly in Amazon experimentation tooling. They set the Standard Operating Procedure for the PV LTV measurement systems, provide visibility and explainability into the model outputs to empower users to understand and use them effectively.To be successful in the role, a Senior Economist in PSE must have deep expertise in econometrics and possess a good understanding of strength and weakness of various science approaches.They drive best practices and set standards for metric development process, model calibration, evaluation and governance, and balancing science (i.e. metric fidelity) and engineering constraints. They advise onminimum data requirements for various models, and are able to persuade teams to collect additional observational or experimental data when necessary. They extensively monitor model performance and identify opportunities for improvement in model precision, sensitivity, scalability and operational excellence.About the teamPrime Video Content discovery science is a central team which defines customer and business success metrics, models, heuristics and econometric frameworks. The team develops, owns and operates a suite of data science and economic models that govern online and offline decision making systems. The team is responsible for Prime Video’s experimentation practice and continuously innovates and upskills teams across the organization on science best practices. The team values diversity, collaboration and learning, and is excited to welcome a new member whose passion and creativity will help the team continue innovating and enhancing customer experience.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent ...

The Private Brands Discovery team designs innovative machine learning solutions to drive customer awareness for Amazon’s own brands and help customers discover products they love. Private Brands Discovery is an interdisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, who incubate and build disruptive solutions using cutting-edge technology to solve some of the toughest science problems at Amazon. To this end, the team employs methods from Natural Language Processing, Deep learning, multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics to drive discovery across the customer journey. Our solutions are crucial for the success of Amazon’s own brands and serve as a beacon for discovery solutions across Amazon.This is a high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have business impact, dive deep into large-scale problems, enable measurable actions on the consumer economy, and work closely with scientists and engineers. As a scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.. With a focus on bias for action, this individual will be able to work equally well with Science, Engineering, Economics and business teams. Key job responsibilities- 5+ yrs of relevant, broad research experience after PhD degree or equivalent.- Advanced expertise and knowledge of applying observational causal interference methods- Strong background in statistics methodology, applications to business problems, and/or big data.- Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment.- Strong research track record.- Effective verbal and written communications skills with both economists and non-economist audiences.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent ...

Senior Economist, Private Brands Discovery Job ID: 2851486 | Amazon.com Services LLC The Private Brands Discovery team designs innovative machine learning solutions to drive customer awareness for Amazon’s own brands and help customers discover products they love. Private Brands Discovery is an interdisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, who incubate and build disruptive solutions using cutting-edge technology to solve some of the toughest science problems at Amazon. To this end, the team employs methods from Natural Language Processing, Deep learning, multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics to drive discovery across the customer journey. Our solutions are crucial for the success of Amazon’s own brands and serve as a beacon for discovery solutions across Amazon. ...

Senior Economist, Survey Methods, People eXperience Technology Central Science (PXTCS) Job ID: 2860552 | Amazon.com Services LLC The Central Science Team within Amazon’s People Experience and Technology org (PXTCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team, which combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.We are looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations, and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. They will lead teams of researchers to produce robust, objective research results and insights which can be communicated to a broad audience inside and outside of Amazon.Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will work well in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the HR organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will be customer-centric – clearly communicating scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporating their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions.Key job responsibilities Use reduced-form causal analysis and/or structural economic modeling methods to evaluate the impact of change on employee outcomes. ...