Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce - not as a research group, but as a team shipping production-grade, multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the world's most customer-obsessed company, he latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.
Requirements
PhD in economics or equivalent
Experience in analytics and applied economics
Experience in developing and executing an analytic vision to solve business-relevant problems
Experience in building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software
Experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research
Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity, with the ability to craft effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs in a professional setting
Experience identifying opportunities to integrate AI solutions into products and services to drive business value
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
USA, WA, Seattle - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
Additional Information
Amazon Seller Assistant is our flagship GenAI-first, multi-agent system that reimagines Seller experience. Our vision is to provide each seller with a proactive, autonomous, agentic assistant that understands their business and helps them navigate the complexities of selling by anticipating their needs, surfacing insights, resolving issues, taking actions on their behalf, and helping them grow. Amazon Seller Assistant helps millions of sellers on Amazon serve billions of customers worldwide.
We are seeking a world-class Senior Economist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier scientists and engineers to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazon's scale - owning your problem space end-to-end, from a crisp customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a key Seller Assistant capability area.
- Define and ship agentic experiences - reasoning, planning, memory, context engineering - that solve hard seller problems at scale.
- Partner with scientists and engineers to translate frontier AI research into production-grade features sellers trust and depend on.
- Design rigorous evaluation frameworks - automated and human-in-the-loop - to measure agent quality, accuracy, and business impact.
- Deep-dive into seller data, identify unmet needs, and write compelling PRFAQs that set the direction for your team.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across science, engineering, UX, and business teams to deliver with speed and quality.
Key job responsibilities
- Use state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Generative AI techniques to develop the impact measurement for Seller Assistant
- Design, develop and deploy highly innovative models to interact with Sellers and delight them with solutions.
- Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated A/B testing for product launches
- Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches.
Amazon.com · Seattle, WA