Opportunity
Wealthfront is looking for an economist or data scientist with macro expertise to produce public-facing economic research, data sets, and written content using first- and third-party data. This role will sit within Wealthfront’s Investment Research and Data Science team, and support the Wealthfront Content Team by providing insight into consumer, market, and business trends that helps young professionals connect macroeconomic news with their personal finance goals.
This role will particularly support our growing market commentary vertical and newsletter, Vested Interest, in addition to Wealthfront’s blog, social media channels, and media outreach. To bring content and analyses to life across channels, this role will work closely with multiple teams across the company including the Vested Interest team, Investment Research, Social Media, Blog, Creative, Compliance, and more.
Data Science at Wealthfront
The Wealthfront Data Science team utilizes our rich financial and behavioral data to influence Marketing, Product and information security decisions. The team draws from backgrounds in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics and Finance.
The Data Scientist in this role will be primarily embedded within Wealthfront’s Content Team, which focuses on inspiring and empowering smart financial decisions through original, timely content. Through this content, we aim to make Wealthfront the trusted partner for young professionals managing and growing wealth.
This is an ideal opportunity for a data scientist and/or macroeconomist who has experience analyzing stock market data and key economic indicators (CPI, PPI, FRED, etc.) and producing engaging public-facing writing and commentary for broad audiences. An ideal candidate will also have experience creating data visualizations and conducting media interviews about their work.
Responsibilities
Monitor market and macroeconomic news daily and generate timely, unique economic analyses that help young professionals navigate market trends and build their financial confidence.
Turn your analyses into public-facing written content, visualizations, and interactive tools that increase engagement with Wealthfront’s audience.
Partner with Comms, Social Media and Creative teams to distribute your work across a variety of content channels.
Conduct media, podcast, and video interviews to further publicize your analyses.
Support additional Research and Data Science initiatives as needed.
Qualifications
4-6+ years experience running quantitative economic data analyses and writing accessible, high-quality content summarizing your findings.
Experience analyzing third and first-party economic data and connecting it to consumer finance trends.
Storytelling creativity and expertise in translating data into unique, digestible content.
Experience with data visualization is highly preferred.
Willingness to participate in public facing media and/or video interviews required, previous experience preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in economics or another quantitative field required, Masters or PhD preferred.
Proficiency in high-level programming languages such as Python or R.
Skills Required
- 4-6+ years of experience conducting quantitative economic data analyses and writing accessible content summarizing findings
- Experience analyzing first- and third-party economic data and connecting it to consumer finance trends
- Storytelling creativity and ability to translate data into unique, digestible content
- Experience with data visualization
- Willingness to participate in public-facing media and video interviews
- Previous media or video interview experience
- Bachelor’s degree in economics or another quantitative field
- Master’s degree or PhD
- Proficiency in high-level programming languages such as Python or R
What We Do
Wealthfront is a nextgen banking service. We help you manage your money for both your short-term and long-term goals by providing a Cash Account with checking features and high interest, best-in-class automated investment management, and free financial advice, anytime you want it. We entered into the banking space in a big way this year with the launch of our cash account that offers an interest rate 5x greater than the national average. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and have grown nearly 100% this year already to manage nearly $20 billion in total client assets. Our ultimate vision is to optimize and automate all of our clients’ finances and build what we call Self-Driving Money™️. We want clients to be able to automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront account, and let us take care of the rest — paying their bills, topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest based on their specific goals and lifestyle. Join us so you can help us turn this industry on its head and build a service that our clients don't just like, they love. Wealthfront integrates investing and banking services to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth. We're on a mission to build a financial system that favors people over institutions and we're just getting started. Through the power of automation, we deliver personalized, powerful products to help both sophisticated investors and those just starting out learn, lower their costs, and grow their wealth. We're one of the highest rated financial app in the Apple App Store and have been recently named the best robo-advisor and cash management accounts by Nerd Wallet and Investopedia. Want to help us re-architect the financial industry?
