# Head Economist, Marketplace Strategy **Company**: Grab **Location**: Petaling Jaya **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Grab/744000154035109-head-economist-marketplace-strategy?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_534a04ff-806 ## Description Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services including food delivery, financial management, and ride-hailing. 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. **Responsibilities** ### 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. Distill complex economic concepts into simple, actionable mental models to drive executive decision-making. ### Team Leadership & Development - Build & Scale: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of economists and data scientists. Foster a balancing technical rigor with personal career development. - Drive Quality: Guide the team in applying experimental methods and structural modeling to ensure our biggest business bets are backed by rigorous, causal evidence rather than mere correlation. - Manage Workload: Prioritize the team's research agenda to handle the most critical marketplace "unknowns",from long-run market dynamics to system efficiency frontiers,ensuring high morale and impact. ### 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 to decode complex user/partner behaviors. - Experimentation: Design and lead high-stakes A/B testing and quasi-experimental frameworks to optimize dispatch logic and price elasticity, ensuring we move beyond simple metrics to understand "why" users make choices. **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; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and capable of gaining buy-in during high-pressure meetings. - 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. We prefer a Master's or PhD, though we equally value equivalent, high-level professional experience that one has acquired. - Causal Inference: Expertise in quasi-experimental methods (such as difference-in-differences or regression discontinuity) to decode complex behaviors and move beyond correlation. - Data Proficiency: Good command of SQL and statistical programming (R or Python) to work with complex, high-velocity datasets. **Additional Information** ### Life at Grab We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer: - We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance. - With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations. - Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave - We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges. - Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours ## Skills ### Required - Economics - Data Science - SQL - Python - R - Causal Inference - Quasi-experimental methods --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Grab/744000154035109-head-economist-marketplace-strategy?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)