Economist

Job description

DESCRIPTION

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role in AWS Business Technology and Solutions (BTS) is for a PhD economist focused on the economics of AWS Professional Services (ProServe). This is a great role for an economist looking to use their skills to drive deep business impact. BTS is a diverse team that supports infrastructure and other foundational initiatives that span and support Sales, Marketing and Support teams within AWS.

Examples of the problems you will work on:

- Estimating causal impact of Professional Services engagements for AWS customers;
- Using a mix of machine learning and econometric methods, predict customer- or group-level likelihoods of benefiting from ProServe engagements based on customer attributes;
- Understanding the total value add of ProServe business.

Key Responsibilities
· Develop new econometric models or improve existing approaches using scalable techniques
· Extract data for analysis and model development from large, complex datasets
· Closely work with engineering teams to build scalable, efficient systems that implement prototypes in production
· Distill problem definitions from informal business requirements and communicate technical solutions to senior business leaders
· Drive innovation and best practices in applied research across the Amazon research science community.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· PhD in Economics or related quantitative field
· 2+ years of experience in industry, research, consulting or government.
· Experience in micro-econometrics with a particular focus on applied causal inference.