About the team
Join our industry-leading Economic Research team bringing innovative analysis, creativity and excellence to the U.S. housing market. We create, productionalize, analyze, and share a full suite of housing data products and analysis for an audience inside and outside of Zillow. Our work contextualizes Zillow’s unparalleled living database of all homes and hundreds of millions of customers to provide insight to everyday consumers and open data to hundreds of researchers and policymakers across the country. You’ll work in an informal, fun, collaborative atmosphere with a dynamic team with a diverse range of interests and skills.
Learn more about what we are doing at https://www.zillow.com/reearch
About the role
Zillow Group’s Economic Research team is looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Economist who has a passion for applying creative solutions to business problems by systematically employing economic and mathematical frameworks and models. We are always looking for ways to better measure our business and, in particular, the impact that the housing market and other external factors have on it. At the center of Zillow’s effort to build the future of real estate, this team will be responsible for creating innovative solutions to challenging problems, which are central to our mission to empower the consumer and transform the real estate industry by building a true marketplace.
You Will Get To:
- Build interpretable models to measure the impact of real estate market developments on Zillow’s business and financial performance
- Help use our suite of world-class housing market metrics to benchmark Zillow’s performance to the market environment
- Assist the business in optimizing its response to forecasted or stress test scenarios of the real estate market by suggesting which policies to follow
- Build novel analytical frameworks and models from the ground up
- Apply economic analysis to a host of problems ranging from impact analysis, performance attribution, segmentation, and pricing
- Communicate results and insights to key partners in business, marketing, finance, and analytics
- Work closely with applied scientists and engineers to productionalize models
This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.
Who you are
You are curious and excited to dive into our vast data and metrics to derive economic insight that helps further our mission. You are eager to learn about the problems our business faces and translate them to models, no matter how ambiguous or complex. Using the intuition you've developed through education and applied experience, you revel in the opportunity to build models from the ground up. You are passionate about helping our business succeed by making data driven recommendations based on your analysis. You take pride in your work and enjoy explaining your findings to analytics and business partners.
Qualifications
- A Masters Degree and 5+ years experience OR a PhD and 3+ years of experience in Economics, Statistics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline
- Demonstrated ability to manipulate, model, and visualize data in either Python or R
- Familiarity with SQL
- Desire to succeed in a self-starting environment where you can innovate with a high degree of freedom and make a large business impact
- Expertise in applied causal inference and mathematical/econometric models
- Passion for better understanding the relationship between external factors and business outcomes
- Experience building interpretable models for impact analysis, performance attribution, segmentation, or pricing
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills with the ability to communicate and present complex results to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experiencing working cross-functionally between business, tech, and science teams
Transferable Skills
Here at Zillow - we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.
In additional to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Get to know us
Zillow Group, the largest portfolio of real estate brands on mobile and the web, is building a safe, on-demand real estate experience. Whether selling, buying, renting or financing, customers can turn to Zillow's businesses to find and get into their next home with speed, certainty and ease.
We are on a mission to help people unlock their next chapter and are building transformational tools and services that create an on-demand real estate transaction experience. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help them finish it — and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making this vision a reality.
At Zillow Group, we're powered by our inclusive work culture, where everyone has the support and resources to do the best work of their careers. Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction is supported by our passion to empower people and enrich lives around everything home, a deep-rooted culture of innovation, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. But, don't just take our word for it. Read our reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, Fortune Best Workplaces for Technology, Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, Fortune Best Workplaces for Parents, Fatherly's Best Workplaces for New Dads, JUST Capital 100 Company, and the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index constituent.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.