JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
February 1, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Walmart/ Sam's Club
Position Title/Short Description
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Location: Bay Area, California, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
00 -- 00 - Default: Any Field
C -- Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
D -- Microeconomics
J -- Labor and Demographic Economics
L -- Industrial Organization
M -- Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics
O -- Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
Keywords:
Microeconomics
Applied Economics
Big Data
Strategy
Technology
Pricing
Competition
Marketing
Advertising
Forecasting
Econometrics
Productivity
Incentive Design
Full Text of JOE Listing:
The Applied Behavioral Science (ABS) team at Sam’s Club/Walmart is looking for a senior economist. We are an interdisciplinary team of behavioral scientists, data scientist, and economists who collaborate to solve some of the most impactful and difficult business problems.
Responsibilities:
Develop appropriate economic/econometric method to answer product and business problems;
Run field experiments to validate economic models;
Identify and consolidate insight from economic research to help improve business processes;
Assess collaboration opportunities and potential business impact.
Minimum qualifications:
3+ years of applied economic experience post Ph.D;
Ph.D. in Economics, Finance, Quantitative Marketing, or other closely related field;
Expertise in economic modeling or econometrics;
Familiarity with R, Python, Stata, or Matlab;
Feeling comfortable modeling and solving ambiguous problems.
Preferable Qualifications:
Experience in explaining economic models to business and incorporating feedback into modeling;
Experience working with large-scale database systems (e.g. Hive Teradata, DB2);
Sound business judgement with attention to both big picture and details;
Politically savvy to navigate through a large and complex corporate environment;
Experience training junior economists.
Application Requirements:
- Resume, if you have one
- Letters of Reference
- Question and Answer
- Research Papers
- Transcripts
- Teaching Evaluations
- Job Market Paper
- Cover Letter
- CV