Keystone Strategy

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Keystone Strategy’s Economics team solves the most complex challenges of competition, strategy, and intellectual property for leading technology firms and global brands. We bring an interdisciplinary approach that combines economics, computer science, and management science. At Keystone you will work on big economic ideas with Fortune 100 tech clients, grow your professional network and gain relationships that last a lifetime. Keystone fosters a network of academics from top universities as well as leading industry experts to deliver extraordinary impact.

With PhD degrees from leading global institutions, Economists at Keystone gain traction over complex data sets to deliver actionable advice for top organizations. Our Economists work in a collegial, dynamic environment offering substantial resources, data, and access to academic thought leaders to help them develop creative solutions. Economists work collaboratively on a diverse range of cases and projects, across varied industries and multiple clients.

At Keystone, we invest heavily in the career advancement of our Economists. We have an extremely successful track record of building differentiated professional and personal CVs for our team members. Our Economists have consistently gone on to senior positions in our firm and prominent operating positions in high growth firms.

Candidates should have a PhD in economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics or industrial organization, and superlative economic modeling skills. Ideal candidates will have significant experience working with at least one major statistical software package as well as constructing and analyzing large datasets. Experience performing economic analyses using a programming language such as Matlab, Python, or R is a bonus. Candidates should have strong qualitative and quantitative skills, as well as general argument building skills.

What will you learn at Keystone?

#1 You will have Extraordinary Impact: We believe a great workplace is working with superstar colleagues, and we regularly exceed client expectations by surprising them with our creativity and insight.

#2 You will work with Big Data: By working alongside economists and academic experts, you will learn sophisticated modeling approaches and econometric techniques required to manipulate and draw conclusions from the enormous data sets available to companies today.

#3 You will embrace your Passion for Technology: You will solve hard challenges for leading-edge science and technology companies in several areas including online advertising, mobile applications, internet search, social media, internet of things, and others.

#4 You will develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset: You will take on challenges before you have the resources to complete them, and you will learn to marshal the resources necessary to succeed. This skill will differentiate you in every future endeavor – you will know how to start from scratch and get things done.