Staff Market Designer, Economic Design

$229,000 - $255,000/Yr

World - Munich, ND

Full-time - Senior

Munich, ND

About the position

You will be responsible for designing and building the economic mechanisms that power Worldcoin. Examples include user incentives that drive appreciation for and usage of the products, and auctions to allocate contracts to Operators in a fair and efficient manner. To this end, you will apply market design thinking to design the most appropriate mechanisms. Your decisions will be informed by insights from data, experimentation, expert advice, and a deep understanding of the environment where these mechanisms are deployed. Your work will directly impact the mechanisms that are used at a global scale as part of Worldcoin's incentive design and will have a lasting impact on the success of the Worldcoin project.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep and comprehensive understanding of the Worldcoin project and its components, including World ID, the World App, the Orb, the markets, and the users
• Propose and develop market design solutions to key problems across the project, including problems that you identify yourself
• Work closely with your key stakeholders across the Worldcoin organization (in particular Market Operations, Product, Legal, and Engineering) regarding the implementation of new mechanisms
• Take full ownership of your projects; plan them, manage them, execute them, and independently drive them to success
• Collaborate closely with experts on the Economics and Data Science team on the design of new economic mechanisms
• Analyze data yourself and together with data scientists to make data-driven decisions related to your projects, including the design and implementation of experiments and additional data collection channels where the required insights are not readily available

Requirements

• PhD in economics, computer science, operations research or a related field; or a Master's degree in combination with work experience as a market designer
• 5+ years of practical experience as an economist, data scientist, research scientist, statistician or consultant
• Proven track record of applying concepts from market design, game theory, auction theory, or behavioral economics to solve real-world problems
• 2+ years of experience working with data (e.g., using SQL, R, Python or similar)
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
• Radical end-to-end ownership
• Practically oriented and 'getting-the-job-done' mindset
• Thriving in a fast-paced and continuously evolving environment

Nice-to-haves

• Project management experience
• Basic understanding of blockchain technology

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) plan and match
• Life insurance
• Flexible time off
• Commuter benefits
• Professional development stipend
• Competitive long term incentive package