Senior Scientist – Economics
Pandora – Oakland (San Francisco Bay Area)
Job Description
At Pandora we have a single mission: To play only the music you’ll love. (Okay, we’ve added comedy as well – so we’re also up for playing some jokes you’ll love). …
Requirements
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Econometrics, Financial Engineering, Statistics, Actuarial Science or another quantitative discipline
- +2 years of relevant work experience
- Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R (preferred), Matlab or Stata; Coursework in game theory or auction theory
- Familiarity with relational databases or SQL
- Strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
- Ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner
Recommended
- Expert in Statistical Analysis and Theories in Probability
- Experience in scripting for data analysis (Perl, Awk, etc)
- Working knowledge in experimental design and evaluation.
- Working knowledge in observational study and propensity score matching.
- Working knowledge in survey design and meta analysis
Hmm. Could pay more than my faculty job.
Although, I’m thinking of throwing my hat in for the new assistant market this year, which should also yield a significant salary increase.
I bet they have picture of a cartoonish figure play the drums on a slackr with the slogan “Beat your enemies.”
And definitely a “War Room” to compete against last.fm
Department of Labor Disagrees: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Life-Physical-and-Social-Science/Economists.htm
“Employment of economists is projected to grow 6 percent from 2010 to 2020, slower than the average for all occupations. ” (Other occupations at 14% I believe).
“However, employment in the federal government—the largest employer of economists—is expected to decline. As a result, demand for economists in the federal government is likely to be limited.”
“In particular, those with strong quantitative and analytical skills and related work experience should have the best job prospects.”
SOOOooooooooooooooooo, same trend as all the other social sciences. Your degree doesn’t matter but if you can crunch numbers companies are willing to hire you. In comparison, look at market research analyst projected at 41% growth. (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/market-research-analysts.htm#tab-6 ).
Economists will take many of the the market research analyst positions. Sounds like the definition of an economist will shift. Department of labor is just trying to reduce the supply of economists to increase their salary.