Senior Director, Economic Insights

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $315k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Life360

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

👥 B2C

📡 Telecommunications

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

B2C • Safety • Telecommunications

Life360 is a leading family safety app that offers a comprehensive suite of services for location and digital safety. With Life360, users can effortlessly share their location, track their phones, and manage driving safety measures, including crash detection and 24/7 roadside assistance. The app includes features for digital safety, such as identity theft protection and SOS alerts, ensuring protection and prevention for each family member. Life360's plans, which include free, Gold, and Platinum options, are designed to accommodate various needs, offering peace of mind with advanced safety and coordination tools. The app is trusted by millions of users and is highly rated on app stores for its efficiency and reliability in connecting family members and ensuring their safety.

📋 Description

• Create thought-leading economic research and analysis leveraging Life360 data and external datasets to surface new insights about families and the business • Write benchmark reports and publish insights • Serve as Life360's public spokesperson on family behavior and consumer mobility trends, engaging media and speaking at industry events in partnership with Comms • Build repeatable seasonal adjustment frameworks for retail/food service visit trends; own caveating methodology when data history is less than 3 years • Develop a pipeline of data PR narratives (brand-specific and category-level) for economic/consumer/financial press • Identify where Life360's first-party data creates a differentiated narrative angle • Collaborate and work with Product, Engineering, Ads and the Data & Analytics team to align on what data infrastructure investments unlock the best storytelling ROI. • Build relationships with internal and external subject‑matter experts, data scientists, and customers to surface exclusive insights and anecdotes • Maintain newsroom‑grade standards of accuracy, ethics, and sourcing

🎯 Requirements

• Masters degree in Economics, Statistics, Demography and Quantitative Social Science, or related quantitative field (PhD preferred but not required if experience is strong) • 10+ years of applied economics work — ideally in consumer behavior, location data, or retail/mobility analytics • Demonstrated experience publishing data-driven narratives for non-academic audiences (media, investors, policy makers) • Being scrappy. Working knowledge of seasonal adjustment techniques (X-13, STL, or equivalent) and an honest awareness of when you can't seasonally adjust cleanly • Operate with incomplete or short time series — knows how to caveat, not just how to model • Use AI to multiply your impact. You'll use coding agents and automated analysis daily, and help shape what our AI-native analytics stack looks like, contributing to how we move from reactive to proactive to autonomous. • Comfortable being the quoted expert — whether that's a journalist on deadline, a podcast, or a conference stage • Prior work at a data PR-forward org (think Ramp, Square, CB Insights, Apartment List, Zillow Economics), who've experienced what a successful data media program actually looks like operationally, or background in family/household economic research • Familiarity with mobility or location data, specifically understands panel bias, dwell time definitions, and place matching challenges • Exceptional written and communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees) • 401(k) plan with company matching program • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellbeing • Flexible PTO, 13 company wide days off throughout the year • Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns • Learning & Development programs • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle • Free Tile Products