Staff Economist, Marketplace Economics

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Marketplace Economics is a new team at GetYourGuide, built to answer the questions that determine how our marketplace grows and how it should be designed. How much revenue does the next euro of paid search actually return? Which marketing channels are genuinely incremental, and which are taking credit for demand we already had? What price should a supplier set, what does a change in commission do to supply, demand, and liquidity, and how should our ranking and supplier incentives be structured in the first place?

We are a senior team working directly with leadership across Marketing, Pricing, and Supply, among others, and the decisions we inform are among the largest the company makes. On the causal inference side, we draw on tools like experimental design, natural and quasi-experiments, double machine learning, synthetic controls, and more to inform marketing attribution and incrementality, spend allocation, and price elasticity. Our structural work models demand, supply, and the mechanisms connecting them, so we can reason about equilibrium outcomes and simulate counterfactuals we can't run as experiments. Most of our hardest problems in pricing and market design need both.

You'll be a technical lead for pricing and supply and a core contributor to our marketplace measurement work. Reporting to the Director of Marketplace Economics, you will:

• Own the economics of pricing end to end: estimate travel demand and willingness to pay, build the structural models that turn those estimates into defensible price recommendations for our supply partners, and run the experiments that validate them.
• Work collaboratively with other economists on paid marketing optimization problems across channels and geographies and funnel stages.
• Work on the design of the marketplace itself; commission and incentive structures, inventory coverage, supply liquidity.
• Partner closely with business leads in Marketing, Pricing, and Supply by translating ambiguous commercial questions into reasonable identification strategies that drive meaningful business outcomes.
• Set the technical bar for empirical rigor at GetYourGuide: raise the quality of experiment design across teams, mentor analysts and data scientists.

• PhD in Economics, or a closely related quantitative discipline with a strong applied focus.
• 5+ years of applied work after your PhD, including 2+ years at a marketplace or platform company.
• Comfort with structural work: discrete choice and demand estimation, equilibrium and counterfactual simulation, and the industrial organization or market design toolkit for reasoning about mechanisms, incentives, and two-sided platform dynamics.
• Expertise in causal inference: experimental design, difference-in-differences, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, double/debiased ML, and Bayesian approaches to media measurement.
• The judgment to choose between these approaches for the problem in front of you, and to say clearly what each one can and cannot support.
• Strong Python and SQL, and comfort working with production-scale data alongside data engineers and scientists.
• A track record of your analysis influencing business decisions.
• Genuine enthusiasm for stakeholder work: excellent written and spoken English, and the judgment to know when a simpler answer is the right one.

• Pricing, demand estimation, or revenue management experience in a two-sided marketplace.
• Market or mechanism design work in production: matching, ranking, allocation, or incentive systems that real users transacted through.
• Experience working alongside ML and data science teams and shipping methods into production systems.

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
• A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time. 
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize  with a quarterly team event budget 
• Access to leading AI tools plus the resources and budget to get the most out of them
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

And more…

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