The Seller External Relations (SER) team ensures that Amazon is viewed globally by external audiences as a valuable, accessible, partner who respects and celebrates the success of its sellers. We develop strategic, data-supported, messaging and publish external reports that demonstrate and celebrate the positive experiences of sellers on Amazon to other sellers, the general public, and influentials (e.g., media and policymakers) with the goal of improving their perception of the experience and benefits of selling in our store.

As Sr. Economist for SER, you will build the science models and the supporting structures needed to analyze, dive deep, and develop underlying data for our external messaging and reports. Your work will demonstrate how Amazon’s innovation enables seller success and supports their growth. You will have the opportunity to present findings to cross functional team partners to drive improvements. You will work closely with other Applied/Research/Data Scientists, Economists, Data Engineers, Software Development Engineers, Program Managers and Business Partners to solve challenging problems. You need be comfortable using intellect, curiosity and technical ability to develop innovative solutions to business problems. You will become an expert on aspects of the business to understand how to apply science and analytics to develop and substantiate our strategic messaging. You'll thrive if you enjoy tackling ambiguous challenges using the economics toolkit to identify and solve problems at scale. You will be expected to provide clear and concise explanation of results and approaches, provide opinion and guidance on problem solving, and present to senior leadership across multiple business units.

The ideal candidate will have outstanding leadership skills, proven ability to develop, enhance, automate, and manage science models from end to end. The ideal candidate will have strong data mining and modeling skills and will be comfortable facilitating idea creation and working from concept through to execution. The ideal candidate must have demonstrated ability to manage medium-scale automation and modeling projects, identify requirements and build methodology and tools that are mathematically grounded but also explainable operationally, apply technical skills allowing the models to adapt to changing attributes.


Key job responsibilities
• Contribute to external messaging and report strategy based on science models and data analysis
• Develop models to measure long term impact of the relationship between Amazon selling tools and seller behavior
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams across the business to develop comprehensive models with diverse inputs
• Use economical techniques to discover and develop underlying data for our strategic messaging and report work
• Research, experiment and implement novel approaches.
• Work closely with other scientists across teams.
• Use the best practices in science: data integrity, design, test, and implementation and documentation.

About the team
SER is functionally diverse organization that includes a broad spectrum of skillsets and job families. We are a team of program and product managers, business analysts, creatives, storytellers, and small business evangelists - all important contributors to our work in ensuring that perception of Amazon’s support of small business matches reality. We have a supportive, fast-paced team culture, and we prioritize learning, growth, and helping each other to continuously raise the bar. Your direct team would be comprised of product and program managers, business analysts, and data engineers, with stakeholders and partners in similar functions accross the organization.