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Contact: Human Resources, abpost@amazon.com

Years Experience: 5
Education Required: Four-Year Degree
Job Type: Direct
Job Level: Mid-Career

Job Description:

What's in it for me?

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.

Our Ideal Candidate:

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.

Amazon.com
work hard, have fun, make history

We employ some of the world's brightest and most innovative minds in software, working on event-driven fulfillment planning, optimal content selection, product recommendation algorithms, guaranteed interprocess messaging, and the list goes on and on. Whether you're scaling our world-class supply chain systems or you're architecting an ecommerce platform that big name retailers (Target and Toys 'R Us, for example) depend on to run their online businesses - you'll find challenging work that'll stretch you on multiple dimensions.

At Amazon, we ship software continuously, so you'll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks not years. Amazon has an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals' innovative ideas are prized and routinely make history. Because you'll be on a small cross-functional team that is responsible for both business and technology decisions, you'll never want for understanding the relationship between what you're working on and the ultimate business value that is being created.

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and is now the world's leading ecommerce technology company. Amazon.com seeks exceptionally well-qualified candidates and offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Contact: Human Resources, abpost@amazon.com