Senior Economist
Core
Estimate causal effects of product, operational, and resource-allocation decisions on cost, utilization, customer outcomes, and revenue; formulate decisions as optimization problems and translate findings into decision rules and forecasting tools.
Role type
Senior IC economist (causal inference & optimization)
Builds
Decision rules, forecasting tools, and optimization systems
Domain
Technology / Resource allocation / Causal inference
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
causal inference, optimization, scientific computing (R/Python), large-scale data processing, applied research, quantitative modeling
Preferred skills
Doctorate in Economics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, optimization, causal inference, research publications, production system deployment, security domain knowledge (threat intelligence, anti-fraud)
Technologies
R, Python, Statsmodels, EconML, DoubleML
Responsibilities
Estimate causal effects of decisions on business outcomes; formulate resource allocation as optimization problems; determine micro-level units of analysis; instrument and collect data with product/engineering; translate findings into decision rules and optimization systems; write reports for executive consumption
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
