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If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
* Work on a challenging problem that has the potential to significantly impact Amazon’s business position
* Develop econometric models and experiments to measure the customer and financial impact of Amazon’s product assortment
* Collaborate with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change
* Influence business leaders based on empirical findings
Basic Qualifications
* PhD in Economics or Finance is a must
* Post PhD experience in private sector, academia, consulting or government
* Experience with programmatic scripting languages for data analysis (e.g. Python, Stata, R)
* Experience applying empirical techniques in reduced-form causal analysis and/or machine learning
* Ability to distil and communicate relevant scientific insights to senior business leaders
Preferred Qualifications
* Strong research track record
* Deep experience and knowledge of experimentation, and of specific causal inference techniques (e.g. instrumental variables, differences-in-differences, synthetic control)
* Demonstrated ability to leverage data and/or models to drive organizational impact and change in a private or public sector context
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