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Amazon.com is seeking a Statistician / Data Miner for advanced analysis of consumer behavior data. You, the successful candidate, will work on a wide variety of analysis projects. One day you'll be handling an urgent request for data and analysis to answer an immediate business question, and the next day you'll be contributing ideas and analysis to Amazon.com's long term program of research into online shopping behavior. You'll have access to the world's largest e-commerce database, for extensive analysis of consumer behavior, as well as access to the world's largest and most advanced website laboratory for experimental studies. The results of your analysis will impact critical business decisions, and you will be able to see and influence Amazon.com's business and technology.

To succeed in this role you should be passionate about delivering accurate and actionable customer analyses to business decision-makers, and you will be able to understand and creatively solve problems that span statistics, technology, and business. You should have good communication skills and be adept at translating business questions into analysis plans. We are looking for experience in one or more of the following areas: experimental design and analysis of experiments, longitudinal or survival analysis, time series analysis, applied multivariate analysis. You should have excellent SQL skills; knowledge of SAS would be an advantage. This position requires either a Ph.D. or MS in Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, or related a field, or a Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science with substantial work in data mining.

To apply, please email p13n-jobs@amazon.com.