Principal Economist, Prime Video jobs in United States
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Amazon · 2 days ago

Principal Economist, Prime Video

positionSeattle, WA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$170K/yr - $295K/yr

Amazon is seeking a Principal Economist for Prime Video to influence customer content discovery. The role involves leading initiatives that measure the value of feature launches and partnering with various stakeholders to bridge science and business impact.

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Responsibilities

Lead initiatives to measure the value of new feature launches via large-scale online experiments and observational approaches
Scale decision-making across Prime Video by owning tradeoff frameworks when competing interests fail to align
Partner with finance, business, and product managers to bridge the gap between science decisions and business impact
Develop new internal tools to provide visibility and explainability into the model outputs so users can understand and inform future features

Qualification

PhD in economicsStatistical modelingAnalytics experienceR programmingPython programming

Required

PhD in economics or equivalent field
Experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research

Preferred

Experience in analytics and applied economics
Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems
Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software

Benefits

Equity
Sign-on payments
Medical
Financial
Other benefits

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
dateFounded in 1994
location
Seattle, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://amazon.com

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO

Leadership Team

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Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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