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Principal Economist - Economics and Experimentation (m/w/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
27 Aug 2020

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Function
Technology
Level
Manager
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As a Principal Economist in the Economics & Experimentation Centre of Excellence you will raise and set the scientific standards for causal inference across all teams at Zalando. This includes reviewing experimental and quasi-experimental research and kick-starting new and strategic causal inference scientific projects that will impact the whole organization.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Motivate innovation, prioritize, and lead the development of opportunities to improve and build new causal inference tools that can scale across the company. Coach teams across the company to quantify the business-wide impact of their investment decisions
  • Develop, evaluate, and present research to VP+ decision-makers that quantifies the business impact and trade offs of investment decisions
  • Actively collaborate with economist and data science colleagues. Influence and inspire peers to help them grow and develop further and actively coach junior colleagues
  • Contribute to and improve team and company processes that ensure high quality research through documentation, peer review, and structured feedback

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • PhD in Economics or similar quantitative social science field
  • Extensive demonstrated experience of scientific problem solving and research impact in ecommerce. Strong industry experience with Python, R, SQL, and big data frameworks such as Spark and BigQuery
  • A deep understanding of statistics and machine learning for causal inference and the ability to implement them programmatically in close to production environments
  • Strong general scientific problem solving skills. Thinks strategically, but also stays on top of tactical execution
  • Ability to effectively communicate to both scientific and business stakeholder audiences. Demonstrated ability and desire to provide egoless constructive scientific feedback to peers and coach junior colleagues to become great researchers
PERKS AT WORK
  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

ABOUT ZALANDO

Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store​
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

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Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
 Berlin
Germany
10243
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