Economist, Pricing Science
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Economics
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Economist, Pricing Science based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with R, Agile, Machine Learning, A/B Testing. Compensation is listed at $136,000–$184,000 per year.
- Level
- mid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Economics
- Posted
- Jun 2, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersEstimating the demand response of a pricing decision is genuinely hard. The causal effects are delayed, noisy, and confounded by factors that standard experiment analysis wasn't designed to handle. Most pricing teams default to heuristics not because they don't care about customer responses, but because measuring them rigorously is an unsolved problem. P2OS is building the science to solve it. We're hiring an Economist to own that work — defining how we estimate digital demand response in a pricing context, building the identification strategies that make those estimates credible, and translating outputs into something pricing teams can use to make better decisions. The role sits at the intersection of econometric methodology and production-quality analysis, and requires someone who can operate independently in both. As science lead, you'll own the digital pricing methodology domain, and be the internal authority on causal inference for pricing across P2OS and partner teams. Key job responsibilities * Own the end-to-end digital pricing methodology for pricing — identification strategy, modeling choices, validation approach, and business use cases — and drive adoption across pricing contexts * Deliver high-stakes analyses connecting digital pricing estimates to a concrete pricing decision and strategy change at VP+ level * Apply advanced…