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About the Role
As an Economist and Researcher, you will build trusted industry insights and measurement standards that explain how people use AI for search, shopping, and decision making. You will take real user conversations and AI model behavior and turn them into public-facing research that shapes the narrative of where AI is going and how brands must adapt.
Responsibilities
- Create accurate and rigorous research that becomes a trusted source of truth for AI usage trends and answer engine behavior
- Engage with media, academia, and industry leaders to educate the market using evidence-grounded analysis
- Identify emerging inflection points in AI search and AI shopping and quantify their impact on consumers and businesses
- Publish research papers, reports, and insights that inform the product roadmap and guide strategic decisions
- Uphold high standards of correctness, reproducibility, and transparency in all published outputs
Requirements
- Experience solving complex research problems in academia or industry, with 5 or more years of experience
- Strong ability to validate assumptions, pressure test results, and ensure research can withstand scrutiny
- Fluency in SQL and proficiency in R or Python for empirical analysis
- Excellent communication skills and comfort presenting research externally
- Ownership mindset, intellectual curiosity, and passion for answering questions that matter
- Experience in technology economics, economic consulting, or policy research
- Record of published research or public-facing insights that influenced decision making
- Motivated by access to rare and unmatched data on how real people use AI to search and shop across major answer engines
- Excited by the opportunity to define industry standard metrics for AI visibility and AI shopping behavior
- Interested in publishing research cited by media, industry analysts, and academic partners
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where work directly shapes product direction, thought leadership, and category creation
- Drawn to competitive compensation and meaningful equity in a rapidly growing company
Skills
- SQL
- R
- Python
- Empirical analysis
- Communication
- Presentation
Location
- Union Square, NYC
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- PhD in economics or a related quantitative field
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000-$265,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Full range of benefits and perks
- Visa sponsorship
About the Company
- Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma.
- Profound’s AI Marketer joins real user prompts and AI model behavior data to find opportunities and automate tasks like reporting, content drafting, auditing, and competitive research.
- Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence.