GetYourGuide

economist marketplace economics

In short

Senior marketplace economist role at a travel-experiences marketplace, owning pricing economics, demand estimation, and marketplace design (commissions, incentives, liquidity). Requires a PhD in Economics or related quantitative field, 5+ years applied experience post-PhD with 2+ years at a marketplace/platform company, deep expertise in structural modeling and causal inference, plus strong Python and SQL skills. Hybrid role based in Berlin, three days per week in office.

# About GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide connects people with trusted, unique travel experiences around the world.
Responsibilities
•Own pricing economics end to end: estimate travel demand and willingness to pay, build structural models for price recommendations to supply partners, and run validation experiments
•Collaborate with economists on paid marketing optimization across channels, geographies, and funnel stages
•Work on marketplace design, including commission and incentive structures, inventory coverage, and supply liquidity
•Translate ambiguous commercial questions with business leads in Marketing, Pricing, and Supply into identification strategies that drive business outcomes
•Set the technical bar for empirical rigor, improve experiment design across teams, and mentor analysts and data scientists
Requirements
•PhD in Economics or a closely related quantitative discipline with a strong applied focus
•5+ Years of applied work after a PhD, including 2+ years at a marketplace or platform company
•Experience with structural modeling, including discrete choice, demand estimation, equilibrium and counterfactual simulation, industrial organization, and market design
•Expertise in causal inference, including experimental design, difference-in-differences, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, double/debiased ML, and Bayesian approaches to media measurement
•Ability to choose suitable methods and explain what each can and cannot support
•Strong Python and SQL skills; able to work with production-scale data alongside data engineers and scientists
•Track record of analysis influencing business decisions
•Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have
•Pricing, demand estimation, or revenue management in a two-sided marketplace
•Production market or mechanism design involving matching, ranking, allocation, or incentive systems
•Experience working with ML and data science teams and shipping methods into production systems
Benefits
•Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
•Three days of in-office collaboration (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) and two days of optional at-home focus time
•Quarterly team event budget
•Monthly transportation and fitness budget
•Discounts on GetYourGuide activities for employees, friends, and family
•Language reimbursement program
•Health and wellness benefits
•Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs
•Access to leading AI tools and resources

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