Global Economist, Commercial Optimization & Data

Location: Madrid Office, Spain

Company

hirify.global operates travel retail and food & beverage businesses across airports, motorways, cruise ships, ports, railways, and other travel locations in 73 countries.

What you will do

• Build the economic foundations for commercial optimization across pricing, availability, selection, promotions, and inventory.
• Frame ambiguous commercial questions as testable hypotheses and define appropriate models, experiments, and metrics.
• Estimate demand elasticities, cross-price effects, substitution, market structure, and promotional impact.
• Develop pricing, assortment, availability, and incentive mechanisms that improve revenue, margin, working-capital efficiency, and traveler experience.
• Design and analyze A/B tests, geo-experiments, natural experiments, and causal-inference studies.
• Partner with data scientists, engineers, commercial, finance, category, supply-chain, and analytics teams to bring economic models into production and guide senior business leaders.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Economics or a closely related quantitative field; a PhD is strongly preferred.
• 6–8+ years of experience applying economics to real business problems, ideally in retail, e-commerce, travel, hospitality, marketplaces, or technology.
• Deep expertise in econometrics, causal inference, experimentation, demand modeling, elasticity estimation, market structure, and incentive or mechanism design.
• Hands-on experience using SQL, R, Python, or Stata to independently build and validate models.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including pricing, promotional effectiveness, P&L drivers, ROI, inventory, and working-capital dynamics.
• Clear written and verbal English required; additional European languages are advantageous.

Nice to have

• Experience in retail, e-commerce, travel, hospitality, marketplaces, or technology companies.
• Experience originating novel economic frameworks or mechanisms rather than only running standard analyses.
• Additional European languages.

Culture & Benefits

• International environment with employees representing more than 150 nationalities.
• Collaboration across a global network operating in 73 countries and 1,000 locations.
• Culture focused on teamwork, development, innovation, sustainability, and social responsibility.
• Opportunity to influence commercial decisions across a large-scale travel-retail business.