Senior Economist

mic, and consumer data. The role will report to the Chief Economist.

What you'll do:

• Work with other members of the Economics team and other data teams to extract key trends impacting residential real estate, blending http://Realtor.com 's proprietary data with relevant data from industry, government, and partners.

• Collaborate with internal communication and research teams and partners on topical research projects to foster http://Realtor.com 's share of voice. This includes data analysis, report authorship, and interviews for print, online and broadcast media.

• Serve as an expert company spokesperson to media and to industry stakeholders on specific research studies, market statistics, and http://Realtor.com 's point of view on the latest housing market & economic trends

• Contribute to the roadmap for innovative economic insights and data products, publish unique content on http://realtor.com/research , including regular and ad-hoc reporting, and drive ideas for future analyses.

• Build econometric models to help explain and predict housing market conditions, including time-series, causality and machine learning methods.

• Collaborate with analysts, researchers and engineers to construct and automate economic data series, proprietary indices, and other market insights.

• Extract data, conduct complex analyses, and communicate results such that they can be easily understood by key audiences with varying degrees of housing market knowledge; audiences include: internal decision makers, home buyers, home sellers, real estate professionals, and the media.

• Lead short-fused research projects and deliver results under tight constraints.

How We Work:
We value creativity and innovation, supported by in-person collaboration. Our employees work in the office three or more days a week to foster a close-knit culture and drive collaboration.

What You'll Bring:

• Degree in statistics, economics, computer science or a related area. Masters/PhD or similar degree candidates or recent grads preferred.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in applied data science and/or economic research (real estate or housing experience preferred).

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal including:

• Strong media presence including live television and audio and large group presentation skills to both industry and consumer audiences, with interest in further developing these skills

• Ability to convey difficult subjects and ideas in sound bites that the average layperson can understand and attract media attention

• Excellent research and analytic skills to support inferential and causal market analysis and forecasting.

• Coding ability and intimacy with the data science toolkit in an applied context (R, Python, Pandas, NumPy, SQL).

• Deep understanding of time series modeling and related statistical techniques (e.g. ARIMA, exponential smoothing, time series regression methods etc.)

• Experience with cloud and big data technologies to extract and analyze data (Snowflake, S3, Redshift, Athena, Hive, BigQuery, Spark, etc).

• Experience building ETL pipelines (e.g. Airflow, DBT) and productionalizing models a strong plus.

• Familiarity with housing and economic datasets a strong plus (i.e. demographic data such as Census, Claritas and economic time series data such as provided by Moody's Analytics and micro data such as IPUMS and other loan-level mortgage databases).

• Proven track record analyzing large amounts of data and crafting data-driven stories

• Strong collaborator with the ability to work independently and cross-functionally

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.