Role OverviewWe are hiring a Senior Manager, Economics to the Sales Channels team within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Central Econ and Science team. The team partners with the business to optimize sales motions, partner programs, and incentives in multi-sided marketplaces. This role will support a strong team in both sourcing new workstreams and executing existing workstreams.
What You Will Do
This role interfaces directly with executives, product/program owners, science leadership, and science ICs to create multi-year research agendas that drive step-change growth for the business. The role will also own both production recommendation systems and feature generation for external systems.
Why It Might Be a Fit
We expect team members to grow their skills in a supportive and collegial environment. We expect and measure impact, and we hold each other to high standards. We work hard during work hours, but we also don’t encourage working at nights or on weekends.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in economics or related field
- Multiple years experience in industry, consulting, government, academic research or equivalent
- Proven track record in conducting research and solving business problems leveraging techniques from economics or related disciplines
- Advanced coding ability in a scripting language such as Python
- Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment
- Effective verbal and written communications skills
- Experience with big data tools such as Spark is a plus
Benefits
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- prescription insurance
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance
- option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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