Zillow Group

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Zillow’s Economic Research team is looking for applied econometricians and economists with superb technical skills and a passion for applying economic thinking to turn data into compelling insights. Are you ready to enter a fast-paced research environment where your work will be read and used by consumers, academics, other analysts, and policy makers across the country?

If so, then Zillow has a job for you. Be part of an Economic Research team helping to bring innovation, creativity and excellence to the national discussion about how we live. You'll work in an informal, fun, collaborative atmosphere with a team of strong, smart, self-starters like yourself with terabytes of data at your fingertips.

In this role, you’ll conduct research and analysis of real estate markets, evolving demographic phenomena, and past and future market patterns and trends. Projects will include both periodic market reports of various types as well as specific deep dives on topics of interest to you and Zillow customers. You will also be responsible for building predictive statistical, econometric and machine learning models to power tools and features on Zillow, and help consumers make housing related decisions. Most projects will involve some combination of econometric analysis, data exploration, data visualization, and insightful and clear writing. It’s a broad and deep set of skills that we’re searching for in a single person, but we’re certain that there’s at least one of you out there.

Requirements:
• A Ph.D in economics or other highly quantitative field.
• A deep knowledge of econometrics and statistics and demonstrated research ability applying these skills.
• Experience with R statistical software or similar coding language (e.g., Matlab, Stata, GAUSS, SAS).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience with data access and manipulation tools (such as SQL) or visualization software (such as Tableau) is a plus