Houzz, Inc.

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Houzz, the world's leading home renovation and design platform, is seeking an experienced Economist to join our Economic Research team. We use extensive data to answer interesting questions about the home design, building, and remodeling markets, produce research content, build new products and work with journalists and industry stakeholders to engage, educate, and inform millions worldwide.

Using your experience with data, statistics, knowledge of economics and housing you'll conduct original research, write stories and create data products for homeowners, business groups, and media. You will work in an informal, collaborative atmosphere directly with Houzz’ Principal Economist, as well as with teams of researchers, engineers, designers, marketing specialist, communications managers, and writers. You will help develop and manage research collaborations with academics, industry stakeholders and other external parties.

You'll:
- Apply economic theory, econometric methods and data analysis techniques to inform economic issues and trends
- Leverage internal and external data sources for analysis, modeling and visualizations (including for gathering, analyzing and visualizing your own data)
- Guide data collection efforts and identify opportunities for new data generation
- Create topical narratives, reports and white papers
- Contribute to research on quantifying Houzz’s growing impact and relevance