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Lead Economist, Editorial

Wealthfront

New York City, NY / Palo Alto, CA / San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 2h ago
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Opportunity

Wealthfront is looking for an economist or data scientist with macro expertise to produce public-facing economic research, data sets, and written content using first- and third-party data. This role will sit within Wealthfront’s Investment Research and Data Science team, and support the Wealthfront Content Team by providing insight into consumer, market, and business trends that helps young professionals connect macroeconomic news with their personal finance goals. 

This role will particularly support our growing market commentary vertical and newsletter, Vested Interest, in addition to Wealthfront’s blog, social media channels, and media outreach. To bring content and analyses to life across channels, this role will work closely with multiple teams across the company including the Vested Interest team, Investment Research, Social Media, Blog, Creative, Compliance, and more.

 

Data Science at Wealthfront

The Wealthfront Data Science team utilizes our rich financial and behavioral data to influence Marketing, Product and information security decisions. The team draws from backgrounds in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics and Finance.

The Data Scientist in this role will be primarily embedded within Wealthfront’s Content Team, which focuses on inspiring and empowering smart financial decisions through original, timely content. Through this content, we aim to make Wealthfront the trusted partner for young professionals managing and growing wealth. 

This is an ideal opportunity for a data scientist and/or macroeconomist who has experience analyzing stock market data and key economic indicators (CPI, PPI, FRED, etc.) and producing engaging public-facing writing and commentary for broad audiences. An ideal candidate will also have experience creating data visualizations and conducting media interviews about their work. 

Responsibilities

  • Monitor market and macroeconomic news daily and generate timely, unique economic analyses that help young professionals navigate market trends and build their financial confidence.

  • Turn your analyses into public-facing written content, visualizations, and interactive tools that increase engagement with Wealthfront’s audience.

  • Partner with Comms, Social Media and Creative teams to distribute your work across a variety of content channels.

  • Conduct media, podcast, and video interviews to further publicize your analyses. 

  • Support additional Research and Data Science initiatives as needed.

    • Qualifications

  • 4-6+ years experience running quantitative economic data analyses and writing accessible, high-quality content summarizing your findings.

  • Experience analyzing third and first-party economic data and connecting it to consumer finance trends.

  • Storytelling creativity and expertise in translating data into unique, digestible content.

  • Experience with data visualization is highly preferred. 

  • Willingness to participate in public facing media and/or video interviews required, previous experience preferred.

  • Bachelor’s degree in economics or another quantitative field required, Masters or PhD preferred.

  • Proficiency in high-level programming languages such as Python or R.

    • Estimated annual salary range: $185,000 - $211,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
     
    Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!

    About Wealthfront

    Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.

    We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients turn their savings into long-term wealth, including:

    • A Cash Account that, through our partner banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.

    • A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.

    • Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.

    Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $85 billion of their hard earned savings—and we're far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk!

    For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


    Please review our candidate privacy notice. 


    Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details.


    By “award-winning products”, please refer to www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.  
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