DataScientist,EconomicInsights&Research

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Economic Insights & Research team sits at the intersection of economic research and Stripe's core business. We use Stripe's unparalleled real-time view of the global economy, spanning millions of businesses, industries, and geographies, to produce original economic research that shapes how Stripe understands the world and how the world understands Stripe. Our work informs major product and business decisions, contributes to public discourse on economic trends, and helps Stripe fulfill its mission of growing the GDP of the internet. What you’ll do As a Data Scientist on the Economic Insights & Research team, you will conduct original, rigorous economic research using both Stripe's internal datasets and public data sources, producing findings that directly drive major technical and strategic decisions across the company. You'll work like an economist embedded in one of the world's most data-rich companies, bringing academic-grade rigor to real-world questions that matter at scale. Responsibilities Design and execute deep economic research projects using Stripe's internal transaction data alongside public datasets (e.g., BLS, Census Bureau, Federal Reserve, OECD, and academic data sources) Apply rigorous econometric and statistical methods, including causal inference, time series analysis, panel data modeling, and quasi-experimental designs, to answer consequential questions about the economy and Stripe's role in it Translate economic resea