Economist Internship - Summer 2020

Job Description

Economist - Intern Opportunities

Wayfair is looking for economists who have the ability to tackle difficult empirical problems. Causal inference, tightly coupled with principled experimentation, are essential to driving the decision making algorithms that power our core business. We build our systems from the ground up with economic fundamentals in mind.

We are currently accepting internship applications for Summer of 2020 (June 2020 start date; 10-week program).

What You’ll Do

• Help us design mechanisms in a complex, two sided market.
• Measure the demand response to various promotional treatments, using both observational and experimental methods.
• Design and/or analyze experiments with potential for spillover effects.
• Address a variety of supply-side questions, like product selection.

What You’ll Need

• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics.
• Background in one of the following is preferred: in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, labor economics, econometrics, experimental economics, development economics, behavioral economics, causal inference, quantitative marketing.
• Appetite for collaborating in a highly interdisciplinary environment with other social scientists, computer scientists, statisticians, operations researchers, and engineers.
• Passion for communicating and creating visualization of complex material in a concise and precise way.
• Strong statistics background, ideally including proficiency in R or Python.
• Hands-on experience with bigger datasets, ideally including experience with SQL and Hive.

You will have the opportunity to play a critical role in a growing company while also operating with a high level of executive visibility. The team is focused on creating strategic solutions that steer customer behavior and influence key decision making. Our employees enjoy an environment of strong ownership and quick feedback from building, experimenting and iterating on high-impact work.