Senior Economist, International Seller Services

Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA2026-07-01ONSITE

About the job

Join Amazon's International Seller Services (ISS) Economics team and shape how millions of sellers succeed in the worldwide marketplace through causal inference, LLMs, and generative AI. You'll combine rigorous economic methods with real business impact, building the frameworks and measurement systems that define the future of Amazon's seller services.

Responsibilities

Develop the economics charter in ISS combining scientific methods with business needs; Deliver accurate and actionable insights and recommendations to optimize and expand the business; Navigate ambiguity, lead problem solving, and guide development of new frameworks; Credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders; Coach and guide scientists in your team across different job families including Economists, Data Scientists and Applied Scientists

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD in economics or equivalent

Preferred

Experience in analytics and applied economics; Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software; Experience in applied economic analysis and with big data and machine learning or data science; Experience building and growing teams of economists or machine learning scientists; 5+ years of people management experience; Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.; Experience with scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, or R); 7+ years of applied economics or statistics experience