Description

Amazon's Worldwide Pricing & Promotions organization is seeking a strong Sr. Research Scientist to help solve complex business problems involving pricing algorithms and promotional strategies at a global scale. The Sr. Research Scientist will operate on a team of applied scientists, economists, and scholars. Our team applies causal inferences, statistics, machine learning, optimization, and econometrics to drive actionable insights and to improve strategic business decision-making.

This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration across teams and functions to solve core business problems for the company around setting new pricing and promotional strategies. The work is part of significant scientific investments in promotions intelligence systems that forecast customer demand and optimize promotions strategies across different surfaces.

Key job responsibilities
* Invent and design new solutions for scientifically-complex problem areas and identify opportunities for invention in existing or new business initiatives
* Expertly frame the scientific approach to solve ambiguous business problems, distinguishing between those that require new solutions and those that can be addressed with existing approaches
* Support go/no-go decisions, and assist leaders in making trade-offs between short- and long-term customer, business, and technology needs
* Drive the team's scientific agenda by proposing new initiatives, building alignment across stakeholders, partners, and leadership
* Lead the writing of internal documents or external publications when appropriate
* Define and prioritize science or engineering specifications for new approaches
* Set the standard and drive the team to adopt best practices
* Consistently deliver significant benefit to the business with limited guidance
* Identify and mitigate technical and integration risks
* Ensure accuracy in your process abstractions, models, and simulation results
* Review model performance during implementation and identify opportunities for improvement
* Collaborate with scientists, economists, scholars, engineers, and business stakeholders to identify problems and design solutions
* Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices
* Contribute to the broader internal and external scientific communities


A day in the life
As a Sr. Research Scientist on the WW Pricing & Promotions Science team, you are a key influencer in team strategy that impacts the business. You make insightful contributions to team roadmaps, goals, priorities, and approach. You will work with a team of scientists and economists to deliver critical solutions to complex, ambiguous problems. Your research solutions set a strong example for others. You work efficiently and routinely delivered the right things. You take a long-term view of the scientific and business objectives, product roadmap, technologies, and how they should evolve.

About the team
The WW Pricing & Promotions Science team is responsible for driving scientific innovation to support pricing and promotions programs across Amazon's businesses. We specialize in experimental and observational causal methods, forecasting, and optimization. We apply these tools to drive business decision making at scale, leading to launch decisions of new pricing algorithms and new promotion strategies, understanding short- and long-term value of different programs, and the prioritization of budget allocations. We also develop models to set optimal prices and promotions, and define innovative price guardrails and incentives to optimize for long-term program health.