We are seeking an exceptional Managing Economist to lead our Japan Stores Economics team at Amazon. We work in a wide range of areas that are critical to our customers and businesses, including speed, selection, pricing, and customer growth. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape Amazon Japan's key business decisions and growth strategies through economic principles and econometric science.






Key job responsibilities
• Lead, mentor, and promote a team of economists, fostering a culture of customer obsession, innovation, and analytical rigor.
• Proactively drive science-based strategic decision makings across Japan businesses.
• Bar raise science and make critical prioritization and resource allocation decisions to ensure the team delivers the highest impact.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and science teams in Japan and around the global to drive innovation together.
• Represent the economist team in global forums and executive-level meetings.

About the team
Japan Stores Economics team is the central team for Amazon Japan's economic science. We are a compact team of highly skilled Ph.D. economists who work on some of the most impactful problems in Japan, including selection, delivery speed, pricing, and customer growth. We are not merely an internal consulting team -- we proactively work with the business teams to identify opportunities and shape how our business operates. We are a force-multiplier -- we bring together product, engineering, and finance teams to drive complex projects and deliver innovations to our customers.