Staff Economist, Marketplace Experimentation
8.0/10
Bolt
$90,000 – $135,000 USD
Remote
senior
about 1 month ago
May be outdated
analyticstecheconometricscausal inferencePythondata sciencebig data toolsSparkDatabricks
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Description
What you'll do
- •Collaborate with marketplace teams across the company to optimize sensitivity and speed of their switchback tests
- •Provide standardized guidance to teams on network effects and how to select the right measurement methods.
- •Drive R&D to deepen our understanding of marketplace dynamics and implement new methods to measure long-term impact
- •Deliver proof-of-concepts clear enough for engineers to platformise and scale company-wide
Requirements
- •A strong background (PhD or equivalent experience) in the application of econometric or statistical theory to business or policy decisions
- •Work well in highly collaborative environments to understand the context-specific challenges of teams and work with them to find and develop solutions
- •Proven experience in applying causal inference methods to real product or policy decisions, with at least a theoretical understanding of two-sided marketplaces
- •Comfort reading and implementing methods from research papers: you can go from a paper's mathematical notation to a working Python proof-of-concept
- •Self-direction to define your own roadmap and drive it – you will have strong support and context along the way
- •Experience with data science at scale using big data tools like Spark/Databricks
- •Experience is great, but we really look for drive, intelligence, and integrity.
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