Description The Amazon Search team creates powerful, customer-focused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, our services go to work. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. This position will develop economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets, develop a theoretic framework of the search process and customer frictions that lends to policy evaluation, and create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering, pricing, and delivery optimization. The ideal candidate will have outstanding Economics knowledge, demonstrated strength in practical and policy relevant structural econometrics, strong collaboration skills, proven ability to lead highly ambiguous and large projects, and a drive to deliver results. They will work closely with Economists, Data / Applied Scientists, Engineers, and Product leads to integrate economic insights into policy and production systems Familiarity with informational retrieval and recommender systems is a plus but not required. Key job responsibilities This role is responsible for creating mechanisms (metrics, models, mechanism) that optimize search while accounting for effects on the entirety of the Amazon Stores. Some example projects include: * Develop an economic frameworks for selecting products into customer consideration sets. Utilizing demand estimation, internalizing spillovers (e.g. menu effects), and incorporating long term effects on customer beliefs. We want to embed economics into state of the art list-wise ranking models. * Develop a means of valuing newly launched products and how the impact all aspects of the experience (prices, brand awareness, or even referential utility). * Develop a theoretic framework of the search process with a valuation of customer frictions that lends to evaluation of changes in the experience (aka a “search/browse model”) * Create frameworks for coordinating product discovery with other marketplace decision systems like ordering, pricing, and delivery optimization. Basic Qualifications * PhD in Economics, Computer Science, or highly related field (Statistics, Finance, Math) * 10+ years of experience in industry, consulting, government, or academic research * Demonstrated expertise in structural econometrics * Experience with big data and machine learning or data science * Coding ability in a scripting language such as R or python or STATA Preferred Qualifications * Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems. * Experience in building analytic or scientific data products or solutions. * Written and verbal communications skills to convey complicated process and systems to business partners and senior leadership. * Experience with informational retrieval and recommender systems. * Applicants with considerably more and broader, experience, are also strongly encouraged. * Strong track record in performing high-quality analysis of data at scale. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $170,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $294,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.