JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
August 1, 2017 - January 31, 2018
Houzz Inc.
Position Title/Short Description
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Location: Palo Alto, California, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
L1 -- Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
C5 -- Econometric Modeling
D4 -- Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
D9 -- Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
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Full Text of JOE Listing:
Houzz is seeking a talented Pricing Economist for our rapidly growing Marketplace. With over 2M products and 40M monthly unique users, Houzz is already a leading ecommerce destination for home goods. In this role, you will work closely with engineering, product, sales and operations to develop methods for analyzing and providing guidance on an array of subjects like pricing, logistics, cost optimization and fulfillment. You will gain access to a rich variety of research problems and data-sets, a world-class analytics platform and the opportunities to create real business and social impact.
Responsibilities:
-Develop new econometric models and/or improve existing approaches for pricing
-Build models and work with large data complex data sets to do deeper analysis
-Build scalable solutions and implement experiments in production
-Apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment
-Drive business growth through pricing strategy, shipping efficiency, logistics, etc.
Qualifications:
-PhD in Economics, Operations Research, Data Science or related field
-3+ years of relevant industry experience
-Advanced SQL skills
-Experience with data munging and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
-Data-driven and technical; ability to identify key insights and optimization opportunities
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills