Senior Economist, Litigation and Regulatory Economics

Want to help Amazon tell its customer-centric story around the world and work in a highly cross-functional environment with economists, lawyers, scientists, public policy, public relations, and business teams? If yes, keep reading!

You"ll join a team of economists, engineers, and lawyers to develop economic analysis and evidence supporting legal and regulatory matters across all our lines of business worldwide-including retail, marketplace services, AWS, consumer experience, shopping and search, and operations. In this role, you will have exposure to complex regulatory issues that are of high strategic importance to the company and will develop significant expertise on the economics of Amazon's business operations and the industries in which it operates.

Key job responsibilities:

• Provide data-driven guidance on high-stakes legal and regulatory questions facing Amazon worldwide
• Collaborate with economists, scientists, engineers, and non-technical partners on high-impact projects with global scope
• Partner with global public policy teams to apply economic analyses to current policy debates on competition, AI, and related issues
• Engage with external stakeholders to drive deeper understanding of Amazon's business model and the value it develops for the economy
• Support requests for economic analyses and data in ongoing regulatory and litigation matters worldwide
• Synthesize business facts and data into compelling economic narratives, translating complex findings into actionable insights
• Advise stakeholders across Amazon on a broad spectrum of complex and often novel economic issues
• Conduct, direct, and coordinate all phases of research projects-defining key questions, evaluating methodology, executing analysis, and communicating results

If you"re an economist with a passion for the current legal and policy debate, strong practical judgment and creative problem-solving skills, a love of communicating economic ideas to non-technical audiences, a knack for distilling data and economic models into key insights, and a track record of delivering results fast, we want to talk to you!

Internal job description

Basic qualifications

• PhD in Economics or closely related field

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of economic consulting, regulatory, or policy-relevant experience.
• Significant economic consulting, regulatory, or policy-relevant experience
• Broad experience consulting on international competition litigation and regulatory issues, including in emerging economies.
• Multilingual verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong background in program evaluation methods, empirical industrial organization methods, applications to business problems, and/or big data.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment.
• Strong research track record.
• Preferred specialties in applied micro or empirical IO, but behavioral economists and generalists with significant competition experience are also encouraged to apply.
• Familiarity with government data sources.
• Familiarity with Internet, software, and/or media industries and the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate.
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.