Who we are:

Revelio Labs provides workforce intelligence. We absorb and standardize hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the world’s first universal HR database, allowing us to see current workforce composition and trends of any company. Our customers include investors, corporate strategists, HR teams, academics, and governments. We are working on some of the most challenging and cutting-edge data science problems. You will work with a team of data scientists and economists with advanced domain expertise. Our startup is small and growing quickly, with enormous potential for growth.

What we’re looking for:

Revelio Labs is looking for an applied Economist to join the Economics team. The Economics team at Revelio Labs is charged with many exciting tasks: Analyzing and deriving insights from our data, writing our weekly newsletter, collaborating on large-scale research projects with academics, working on internal models, and working with our clients to deliver custom insights. The Economics Team faces both externally and internally, and builds a bridge between data science, engineering, sales, and business development.

As the ideal candidate, you have experience doing empirical research on large microlevel data and know your way around loading, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data. You are interested in labor market trends, business analytics and human resources. You have a knack for data journalism: asking the right questions, telling an interesting story with data, and effectively communicating nuanced ideas is second nature to you.

As an Economist at Revelio Labs, you will contribute to writing the weekly newsletter. This includes coming up with interesting questions, analyzing and interpreting our data, visualizing the key insights, and telling the story. You will interact with clients and deliver custom-made insights from our data to them, and with journalists who are interested in our data and stories. You will closely work with the sales team to bring on new clients and act as a data expert. You will contribute to large-scale research projects with outside collaborators. You will be representing the company at conferences and conventions and provide thought leadership on workforce intelligence topics.

Experience and Skills:

• PhD in Economics or closely related field
• Experience in applied economic research, business journalism, or data analysis capacity is preferred.
• Python (pandas, numpy, matplotlib, Plotly)
• SQL

Location:

Our offices are based in New York City, but the position can be done remotely.

Salary:

The pay range for this position in New York City is $130,000 - $160,000 per year. The salary range for performing this role outside of New York City may differ. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additionally, you may be eligible to participate in our company’s equity program, plus benefits, including medical, dental, vision, retirement, and other. The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be more senior or have different experience than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Why you should work with us:

We are working on some of the most challenging and cutting-edge data science problems. You will work with a team of data scientists and economists with advanced domain expertise. Our startup is small and growing quickly, with enormous potential for growth.

How you should reach us:

Please email your resume to [email protected] as a PDF file. Please include your GitHub and highlight any projects that you’ve worked on that may be relevant.