Labor Economist Research Manager

As a Labor Economist Research Manager, you will lead and manage research initiatives within our organization. Your role will involve overseeing research projects, guiding research teams, and utilizing data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions. You will play a key role in shaping research strategies, ensuring the quality of research outputs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support the organization's objectives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of researchers and analysts by fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment and providing ongoing guidance, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Lead and oversee multiple research projects from inception to completion, ensuring they align with organizational goals, stakeholder needs, and industry best practices.
• Define research objectives, methodologies, and timelines while allocating resources, monitoring progress, and addressing challenges to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders—including clients, partners, and subject matter experts—to align research priorities and outcomes with business needs.
• Communicate key insights and recommendations to clients and consult clients on how to use data to make data-driven decisions.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field, such as Economics, Social Sciences, Business, or a related discipline.
• Substantial experience in research and analysis, with a track record of managing research projects and teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, and Excel.
• Experience leading a research team.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with offices in Moscow, ID (US), the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to our diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.