What are the responsibilities and job description for the Economist II, P2 Science, Data, and Insights position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
Amazon is seeking talented tech economists to join their central science organization for worldwide pricing and promotions. The role focuses on building scalable solutions and implementing econometric models to support key business initiatives and improve measurement of promotion effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with principals and senior team members to drive science improvements and implement state-of-the-art econometric solutions
• Partner with engineering and other science collaborators to design, implement, prototype, deploy, and maintain large-scale causal ML models.
• Carry out in-depth research and analysis exploring pricing-related data sets, including large sets of real-world experimental data, to understand behavior, highlight model improvement opportunities, and understand shortcomings and limitations.
• Define data quality standards for understanding typical behavior, capturing outliers, and detecting model performance issues.
• Work with product stakeholders to help improve our ability to provide quality measurement of promotion effectiveness for our customers.
Qualifications:
Required:
• PhD in economics or equivalent
Preferred:
• 2 years of industry, consulting, government, or academic research experience
• Experience working with very large, disparate data sets and big data tools such as Spark
• 2 years experience programming econometric models in Python.
Company:
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
