Sustainability Science Researcher (Social Responsibility)
Posted: 9/19/2019 (Employment)
Amazon’s Sustainability organization points Amazon’s innovative culture at environmental and social impacts with enormous scale. We consider the full lifecycle of our impact, from supply chain to customer experience, operational efficiency to waste diversion. We take action to improve the impact amazon has on the environment and people within our supply chains, looking for wins that are good for our customers, suppliers, and our business as well. Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a team of environmental and social research scientists and product managers answering core sustainability questions for the larger organization and looking around corners to identify environmental and social impacts and opportunities.
A Research Scientist at Amazon applies data science, subject matter expertise, and business acumen to deliver results at scale. As a Sustainability Science Researcher (Social Responsibility), you will be responsible for conducting assessments of social issues/impacts across Amazon, evaluating social sustainability impacts of value chains, from manufacturing, to transportation, to consumer. The ideal candidate will have industry experience researching key social issues/impacts/opportunities across the value chain. The candidate should be comfortable working with ambiguity, imperfect data, identifying sources of uncertainty, and finding public data or working with program teams to fill the gaps where needed. This candidate will also possess excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills to drive consensus across multiple stakeholders.
Location: Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle, WA