Economist

Gro is hiring an Economist to join its team of technology, climate, and agriculture experts. The successful candidate will be responsible for researching, understanding and synthesizing the impact of the wider economic environment, including economic policy, on Gro’s agricultural and climate insights, and will advise our CEO directly on the same.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with agricultural market analysts and climate scientists to help us understand and model the impact of economic, fiscal, and financial policies; new technology; and likely near-future economic and climate scenarios on agricultural markets and financial and real asset risk modeling
• Analyze a wide range of financial and economic information to advise Gro on what type of products and indices will be most relevant to specific customers
• Working closely with product-design, engineering and data science teams in the design and implementation of new analytical tools as well as solving technical obstacles related to economic data sources
• Collaborating with the business development team on client specific projects
• Provide actionable, timely advice to the CEO on all manner of economic issues as per the above. The analysis of geopolitics, global financial markets, and international trade will all play a large part in formulating a view
• Writing analytical insights at the intersection of climate, agriculture and economics including on topics related to climate change risk, impact, and opportunity
• Traveling for client visits, conferences, meetings
• Working on special projects and initiatives
  
  

What We're Looking For:

• 8 years of experience as an Economist, performing and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative analyses
• PhD in Economics or a closely related field 
• Exceptional written, oral, and presentation abilities
• Strong organizational, problem solving, and analytical skills
• Hands-on experience with modern statistical and data science tools and a passion for working with them to derive new insights
• Comfort with working with large volumes of data
• Ability to work independently against tight deadlines
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members across functional roles and strong communication skills
  
  

Nice to have

• Domain knowledge and/or experience in any climate domain, but especially physical risk
• Domain knowledge and/or experience in agricultural markets, subsidies, and trade

Compensation 

The salary range for this role is expected to be $175,000 - $220,000. Other compensation for the role includes equity, a generous PTO policy and health, vision & dental insurance.