Job Description

About the Company:

World is a network of real humans, built on privacy-preserving proof-of-human technology, and powered by a globally inclusive financial network that enables the free flow of digital assets for all. It is built to connect, empower, and be owned by everyone.

About the team:

The Economics team is responsible for the economic design and analysis of World Network. In our team, Economists, Computer Scientists and Statisticians work together to rapidly design, build, and field-test incentive mechanisms that scale to thousands of Operators and more than a billion participants of the Worldcoin network. We partner with other teams across the organization to advance our products (e.g., World App, World ID, World Chain) and improve our market operations. We have earned a reputation for our hands-on approach, responsiveness, technical expertise, precision, and impactful solutions.

About the Opportunity:

As the Director of Economics, you will lead and build out the Economics team. The team currently consists of one Economist and two Economics product managers, but is expected to grow in the next year. You will set the team’s priorities and hire new team members as needed. You will be responsible for designing and analyzing the economic mechanisms that power the World Network. 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 guided by insights from data, field experimentation, rigorous statistical analysis, expert advice, and a thorough understanding of the environment where these mechanisms are deployed. You and your team will be a service provider for many other teams (in particular Product, Market Operations and the Office of the CEO) for economic insights and design. You will report to the Chief Economist/Chief Analytics Officer. Your work will directly impact World Network’s incentive design,strategic decisions and global resource allocation.

In this role, you will:

• Build out and lead a high-performing team of economists and statisticians

• Foster a culture of high quality work and continuous improvement

• Build economic models to optimize the project’s resource allocation decisions

• Design and implement field experiments in collaboration with other teams (in particular Economic Operations, Product, Market Operations, Marketing)

• Lead rigorous statistical analyses (including causal inference) to derive insights that drive strategic decisions for individual departments and the whole company

• Perform economic analyses and provide advice on economic strategy

• Collaborate closely with the Economic Operations team to design incentive mechanisms for Product and Market Ops, applying concepts from market design and game theory

• Lead the design and implementation of robust prediction algorithms and ensure they drive meaningful impact

About You:

• PhD in economics, econometrics, operations research, or similar

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience as an IC in an economics role, or similar

• 5+ years of management experience building and leading teams

• Extensive experience with economic modeling to optimize resource allocation decisions

• Extensive experience with designing and deploying field experiments

• Extensive experience in statistics/econometrics (in particular causal inference)

• Proven track record of applying concepts from market design, game theory, auction theory, or behavioral economics to solve real-world problems

• Experience with machine learning/predictive analytics/forecasting

• Skilled at managing cross-functional relationships and communicating with leadership across multiple teams

• Programming experience in SQL, Python, or similar programming languages

• Practically oriented and “getting-the-job-done” mindset

• Thriving in a fast-paced and continuously evolving environment

Location:

Onsite in San Francisco

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