Economist, Marketplace

📋 Description

• Marketplace design: pricing, incentives, and allocation balancing supply and demand
• Causal measurement of marketplace health: liquidity, match quality, and earnings
• Experimentation: A/B and marketplace switchback experiments to evaluate interventions
• Forecasting: modeling supply, demand, and capacity across the talent network
• Economic framing of ranking and routing with ML and engineering
• Example problems: pricing/incentives to improve liquidity without quality loss

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in Economics or related field
• Strong microeconomics/market design and causal inference foundations
• Proficiency in SQL plus Python or R for end-to-end analyses
• Ability to translate theory into production-ready mechanisms
• Clear communication of rigorous analysis to technical and business teams

🎁 Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Relocation bonus up to $15k
• Housing bonus up to $10K near office
• Monthly meals stipend of $1.5K
• Free Equinox membership