Mercado Libre

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Mercado Libre is Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech ecosystem. Our Economics & Analytics team takes on the questions that shape it, from seller and buyer price elasticities and platform fees to advertising incrementality and the long-run effects of business decisions.

Few places offer an economist this setting: a two-sided marketplace across many countries, millions of buyers and sellers, rich transaction-level data, and a steady flow of experiments and policy changes to learn from. Answers to the questions we pose have an immediate impact in what the company does.

There is far more to do than people to do it, and we see that as the draw. Economists have ample freedom to build their own project portfolio, choosing the design, the methods and the tools, and to carry their work all the way into production. Results reach senior leadership.

We're looking for:
- A PhD in economics or a related field (completed or near completion)
- Strong applied microeconomics and empirical skills
- Python or R, and SQL
- Spanish or Portuguese

Location: flexible within Latin America.