The Selling Partner Fees team owns the end-to-end fees experience for two million active third party sellers. We own the fee strategy, fee seller experience, fee accuracy and integrity, fee science and analytics, and we provide scalable technology to monetize all services available to third-party sellers.

We are looking for a Senior Economist to lead the development of economic models and tools to optimize the structure and magnitude of fees paid by >4MM of heterogeneous Sellers Worldwide. This person will work on the development of economic, statistical and machine learning models to understand third party seller behaviors and enhance our fee optimization models. The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable transitioning between theoretical Economic models and empirical ones, and use the combination of these models to provide guidance for fee setting.
A successful Economist in this role will enjoy dealing with ambiguous problems and working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. The position also requires collaboration with other scientists (Economists, Data Scientists…), Strategy Analysts, Product Managers and Software Developers.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop theoretical and empirical models to assess the causal impact of fees on third party sellers’ behavior and business performance.
- Lead enhancements into existing fee calculation models to maximize the long term health of the Amazon third-party marketplace.
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and software developers to incorporate models into production processes and influence senior leaders.
- Act as ambassador of the fees scientific community.