Economist , Economic Decision Science

Amazon
London, United Kingdom
Last week
Job Type
Permanent
Posted
9 Apr 2026 (Last week)
We are looking for an Economist to work on exciting and challenging business problems related to Amazon Retail’s worldwide product assortment. You will build innovative solutions based on econometrics, machine learning, and experimentation. You will be part of a interdisciplinary team of economists, product managers, engineers, and scientists, and your work will influence finance and business decisions affecting Amazon’s vast product assortment globally.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.


Key job responsibilities
* Work on a challenging problem that has the potential to significantly impact Amazon’s business position
* Develop econometric models and experiments to measure the customer and financial impact of Amazon’s product assortment
* Collaborate with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change
* Influence business leaders based on empirical findings

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