The Advertising Economics team is looking for a PhD economist to lead high-impact science projects using state of the art econometrics and ML to maximize the impact of our Ad Sales investments.
In this role, you will deliver on mission critical goals that affects the high-level strategy of our ads business. Therefore, the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences is essential to the candidate’s success. On the methodological front, we are particularly interested in candidates with a strong causal inference background but who also bring complementary skills such as empirical IO, machine learning, or experience working with unstructured audio/text data.
Advertising is used daily to surface new selection and provide customers a wider set of product choices along their shopping journeys. The business is focused on generating value for shoppers as well as advertisers. Our team uses a combination of econometrics, machine learning, and data science to build disruptive products for our Advertising stakeholders. We also generate insights to guide Amazon Advertising strategy, providing direct support to senior leadership.
Key job responsibilities
Leverage econometrics and ML models to optimize advertising strategies on behalf of our customers. Influence key business and product decisions based on insights from models you develop.
Identify and pitch new opportunities to leadership that are suggested by the data.
Partner with other science leaders throughout Amazon to develop consistent and repeatable solutions.
Design, execute, and analyze experiments (A/B testing etc.) to evaluate different strategies.
Work with other scientists, software developers, and product partners to implement your solutions.
