Economist - Empirical IO

Job description

DESCRIPTION

About the position
The Science team drives evidence-based decision-making throughout Twitch. We are researchers and leaders who advise product and business decisions and identify ways to use data and models to develop new capabilities. We are an interdisciplinary team leveraging experts in analytics, data science, and user and audience research to improve the world’s leading livestreaming platform.

Our team seeks an outstanding empirical industrial organization economist with demonstrated experience solving large-scale demand-estimation challenges. We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to adapt and extend cutting-edge demand-estimation techniques to the unique Twitch environment. Our problems include estimating substitution patterns across hundreds of thousands of existing products and approximating demand for new products from new and existing customers. The ideal candidate combines acumen in statistics and applied demand modeling to grapple with these and other challenges and guide decision-making at the highest levels of Twitch.

Responsibilities
· Own projects in supply-and-demand research, including data collection and model development, estimation, and validation
· Autonomously identify and pursue research topics with significant business impact, and make compelling cases for prioritization and resource allocation
· Serve as a subject-matter expert in economics generally and empirical IO specifically. Work with team members and stakeholders to broaden access to and understanding of economics-based capabilities
· Collaborate with specialists in data science, analytics, engineering, and economics disciplines to efficiently develop reliable and reproducible techniques at scale
· Communicate findings in written and verbal form with key technical and business stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Advanced knowledge of machine-learning techniques applied to demand estimation in complex markets
· Prior work with marketplace or entertainment-type products, especially at a tech company
· Experience with data pipelining from data preparation to analysis to deployment
· 2+ years of experience in industry, consulting, government, or academic research
· Excitement to shape the development of a growing team and help millions of content creators and viewers
· Familiar with or uses Twitch

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· PhD in Economics or highly related field (e.g, Quantitative Marketing, Finance)
· Expert-level facility with demand estimation models (e.g., BLP) and techniques (e.g., conjoint analysis)
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills on quantitative topics
· Fluency in data fundamentals: data manipulation in R or Python, SQL, and statistics
· Keen judgment for balancing research depth and pacing