Senior Economist

3 days ago


Singapore Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Full time

Ph.D. degree in Economics, Quantitative Marketing, Information Systems, or Operations Research.
- 5+ years’ postdoctoral experience in industry/academic research positions.

Job summary
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Economist to lead the science in Amazon's selection and pricing area. We look forward to partnering with you to advance our innovation on customers’ behalf.

In this role, you will build ground-breaking, state-of-the-art causal inference models to guide multi-billion-dollar investment decisions around the global Amazon marketplaces. You will own, execute, and expand a research roadmap that connects science, business, and engineering and contributes to Amazon's long term success. As one of the first economists outside North America/EU, you will make an outsized impact to our international marketplaces and pioneer in expanding Amazon’s economist community in Asia.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with Product, Finance, Data Science, and Data Engineering teams across the globe to deliver data-driven insights and products for regional and world-wide launches.
- Innovate on how Amazon can leverage data analytics to better serve our customers through selection and pricing.
- Contribute to building a strong data science community in Amazon Asia.
- Expert knowledge and proven track record in empirical industrial organization and/or reduced-form causal inference.
- Experience in data analytics in a B2C industry (e.g., consumer/retail/retail financial services/telecoms/media).
- Experience with big data tools such as Scala, PySpark, AWS products.
- Publications in world renowned scientific journals.



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