Flexport

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Help develop our global trade at Flexport

Opportunity:
Flexport is looking for accomplished researchers to analyze questions of market structure, market demand and supply in the freight forwarding industry. You will bring strong skills in empirical analysis and data manipulation. You must be willing and excited to take on diverse challenges in a fast-paced environment. This is a remarkable chance to be part of an exciting company facilitating international trade, and also to tackle real-world problems in industrial organization.

You will:
Use Flexport data to answer critical questions for business planning (e.g. elasticity of different types of trade flows with respect to tariffs).
Conduct original research to address key trade questions, raising Flexport’s visibility and furthering the mission to make global trade easy for everybody.
Work cooperatively with the pricing and data teams to provide relevant insight and analysis on trends in trade.
Work as part of a growing group of economists situated in the finance team.

You should have:
A Ph.D. in economics with publishable empirical research in industrial organization. Work on logistics or transportation questions a plus, but not mandatory.
Good analytic and data management skills.
Experience in a non-academic role (e.g. private sector, government, or international organization).