# Head Economist, Marketplace Strategy

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Bangkok
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything.

As the Head Economist for Marketplace Strategy, you will be the architectural lead for the logic that powers our Dispatch, Pricing and/or Supply Planning systems. You sit at the intersection of economic theory, data science, and commercial strategy.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

- Strategy & Domain Stewardship

- Architect Marketplace Mechanisms: Own the economic logic behind our core Dispatch, Pricing, and/or Supply Planning engines, as well as design incentive frameworks and clearing mechanisms that ensure market health.

- Shape the Roadmap: Own the strategic direction of our tech roadmap within your domain, using data-driven insights and hyper-local market understanding to define future priorities.

- Influence & Stakeholder Management: Provide strategic advice to country heads and functional leaders.

- Team Leadership & Development

- Build & Scale: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of economists and data scientists.

- Drive Quality: Guide the team in applying experimental methods and structural modeling to ensure our biggest business bets are backed by rigorous, causal evidence.

- Manage Workload: Prioritize the team's research agenda to handle the most critical marketplace "unknowns".

- Technical Strategy & Innovation

- Bridge Theory and Reality: Oversee the translation of theoretical economic models into real-world applications within our dispatch and pricing algorithms.

- Advanced Analytics: Maintain oversight of the team's use of causal inference, structural modeling, and machine learning.

- Experimentation: Design and lead high-stakes A/B testing and quasi-experimental frameworks to optimize dispatch logic and price elasticity.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential Experience:

- Leadership: Demonstrated experience building relationships across functional teams and leading a group of independent technical contributors.

- Strategic Depth: Ability to "see the forest for the trees," breaking down ambiguous, multi-year marketplace problems into manageable pieces.

- Communication: Good storytelling and presentation skills.

- Relevant Background: Experience in marketplace design, pricing strategy, or economic consulting, within a high-velocity tech environment.

Technical Skills:

- The Academic or Professional Foundation requires an advanced degree in Economics or a related quantitative field.

- Causal Inference: Expertise in quasi-experimental methods.

- Data Proficiency: Good command of SQL and statistical programming (R or Python).

## Skills

### Required
- Economics
- Data Science
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Causal Inference
- Quasi-experimental methods
- Structural Modeling
- Machine Learning

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