Economist II, Marketing Measurements, CMO Science

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an experienced Economist to tackle complex marketing measurement challenges. In this high-impact role, you will design cutting-edge econometric models that drive marketing investment decisions across a vast suite of businesses. Collaborating with top-tier data scientists and economists, you will contribute to redefining scalable marketing measurement, ensuring that your solutions deliver actionable insights to business leaders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence billions in marketing spend while mentoring junior scientists and advancing measurement technology in a dynamic B2C and B2B environment.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Equity options

Sign-on bonuses

Flexible work hours

Employee discounts

Wellness programs

Qualifications

• PhD in Economics or equivalent required.
• 2+ years of industry or academic research experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of Marketing-Mix-Media models to optimize marketing portfolios.
• Collaborate with teams to solve measurement challenges in marketing.

Skills

Econometric modeling

Data analysis

Statistical software (R, Stata, Matlab, SAS)

Problem-solving

Education

PhD in Economics

Tools

R

Stata

Matlab

SAS

Job description

The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a experienced Economist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and developing innovative structural causal models. Working with our team of data scientists, applied scientists, and economists, this economist will help redefine scalable marketing measurement at Amazon and its subsidiaries.

The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization's mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The CMO team provides incrementality and efficiency measurement services to the marketing stakeholders across Amazon's Stores suit of businesses. CMO applies industry leading causal inference models to measure omni-channel effectiveness of marketing campaigns from these businesses worldwide. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams' decisions and therefore how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience with Amazon. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems and analyze marketing effectiveness that contributes billions of dollars to the business. As an Economist, you will be responsible for the design and development of the state-of-the-art measurement and optimization models, while collaborating with other scientists, businesses, marketers, and software teams to solve key challenges facing the teams. Such challenges include measuring the incremental impact of multi-channel marketing portfolios, estimating the impact on long term inter-related customer actions, and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf marketing measurement systems, we are responsible for studying, designing, and building systems to serve Amazon's suite of businesses. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of marketing measurement thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers, scientists, economists and software developers in the business.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will be a technical leader in Econometric research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will own developing the next generation of Marketing-Mix-Media (MMM) models combining structural and reduced form econometric techniques. Your solution will deliver to business leaders accurate and actionable incrementality estimates to improve their marketing portfolio optimization. As a successful Economist, you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, leads problem solving, guides development of new frameworks, writes code, is excited about investigations and algorithms, and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are proficient in structural models to solve business problems. You are a hands-on innovator who can contribute to advancing Marketing measurement technology in a B2C and B2B environment, and push the limits on what's scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable customer and business impact. You will also coach and guide junior scientists in the team to grow the team's talent and scale the impact of your work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in economics or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of industry, consulting, government, or academic research experience
• Knowledge of at least one statistical software package such as R, Stata, Matlab, SAS
• Experience in prediction and forecasting in a research or industrial environment
• Experience with handling of large datasets

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800 / 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.