economist marketplace economics

GetYourGuide connects people with trusted, unique travel experiences around the world.

• Own pricing economics end to end: estimate travel demand and willingness to pay, build structural models for price recommendations to supply partners, and run validation experiments
• Collaborate with economists on paid marketing optimization across channels, geographies, and funnel stages
• Work on marketplace design, including commission and incentive structures, inventory coverage, and supply liquidity
• Translate ambiguous commercial questions with business leads in Marketing, Pricing, and Supply into identification strategies that drive business outcomes
• Set the technical bar for empirical rigor, improve experiment design across teams, and mentor analysts and data scientists

• PhD in Economics or a closely related quantitative discipline with a strong applied focus
• 5+ Years of applied work after a PhD, including 2+ years at a marketplace or platform company
• Experience with structural modeling, including discrete choice, demand estimation, equilibrium and counterfactual simulation, industrial organization, and market design
• Expertise in causal inference, including experimental design, difference-in-differences, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, double/debiased ML, and Bayesian approaches to media measurement
• Ability to choose suitable methods and explain what each can and cannot support
• Strong Python and SQL skills; able to work with production-scale data alongside data engineers and scientists
• Track record of analysis influencing business decisions
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Будет плюсом: pricing, demand estimation, or revenue management in a two-sided marketplace; production market or mechanism design involving matching, ranking, allocation, or incentive systems; experience working with ML and data science teams and shipping methods into production systems

• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
• Three days of in-office collaboration (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) and two days of optional at-home focus time
• Quarterly team event budget
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts on GetYourGuide activities for employees, friends, and family
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits
• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs
• Access to leading AI tools and resources