Senior Economist: Global Regulatory Strategy & Policy

Amazon Inc.; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Economist in Litigation and Regulatory Economics to deliver data-driven analyses for legal and regulatory matters worldwide. You will work with economists, lawyers, scientists, and policy teams on projects spanning retail, marketplace services, AWS, and operations.

You will distill complex economic models into actionable insights and contribute to high-impact policy debates on competition and AI, while communicating results to non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• PhD in economics or equivalent required.
• Strong analytics and applied economics experience.
• Experience building statistical models in R, Python, or STATA.
• 5+ years of economic consulting, regulatory, or policy-relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide data-driven guidance on high-stakes legal and regulatory questions facing Amazon worldwide.
• Collaborate with economists, scientists, engineers, and non-technical partners on high-impact projects with global scope.
• Partner with global public policy teams to apply economic analyses to current policy debates on competition, AI, and related issues.
• Engage with external stakeholders to drive deeper understanding of Amazon’s business model and the value it develops for the economy.
• Support requests for economic analyses and data in ongoing regulatory and litigation matters worldwide.
• Synthesize business facts and data into compelling economic narratives, translating complex findings into actionable insights.
• Advise stakeholders across Amazon on a broad spectrum of complex and often novel economic issues.
• Conduct, direct, and coordinate all phases of research projects—defining key questions, evaluating methodology, executing analysis, and communicating results.

Skills

Analytics

Applied economics

Statistical modeling

Industry experience

Economic consulting

Education

PhD in economics

Tools

R

Python

STATA

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Economist in Litigation and Regulatory Economics to deliver data-driven analyses for legal and regulatory matters worldwide. You will work with economists, lawyers, scientists, and policy teams on projects spanning retail, marketplace services, AWS, and operations.

You will distill complex economic models into actionable insights and contribute to high-impact policy debates on competition and AI, while communicating results to non-technical audiences.