Principal Economist

🕒 July 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👻 Ghost score 19%

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Lightcast

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501 - 1000 employees

🏢 Enterprise

📚 Education

🏛️ Government

Enterprise • Education • Government

Lightcast is a leading authority on labor market data, providing trusted and comprehensive labor market analytics to drive decisions across education, enterprise, and government sectors. With more than 23 years of experience, Lightcast delivers detailed insights into skills, jobs, supply and demand through an extensive data set generated from millions of job postings, career profiles, and other sources across the globe. Their services are designed to help educational institutions, enterprises, and government organizations build future-ready workforces by using AI-enabled and continuously updated data. Lightcast is globally recognized and trusted by industry innovators, and is a vital resource for organizations navigating workforce challenges and demographic changes in the labor market.

📋 Description

• Leads high-impact research on labor markets, workforce transformation, skills, education, and the future of work. • Owns Lightcast’s education and public sector research agenda while serving as a visible external representative across industry, academic, policy, government, and media forums. • Translates complex labor market data into influential research, strategic insights, and compelling public narratives. • Balances intellectual rigor, public influence, ecosystem leadership, and commercial impact.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in economics, labor economics, public policy, workforce development, education, or a related field preferred. • Significant experience leading research related to labor markets, workforce development, economic mobility, skills, education, or the future of work. • Demonstrated track record of publishing influential research and translating complex data into clear, actionable insights. • Experience presenting at conferences, participating in public forums, engaging with media, and serving as a recognized subject matter expert. • Strong relationships across government, education, workforce, research, policy, or economic development ecosystems. • Experience advising policymakers, institutional leaders, executives, or partner organizations. • Proven ability to develop strategic partnerships and collaborative research initiatives across sectors. • Experience supporting business development, executive engagement, client strategy, or commercially relevant research preferred. • Background in a leading research institution, university, think tank, government agency, workforce organization, economic mobility organization, or labor market data organization strongly preferred. • Experience as a current or former fellow, scholar, senior researcher, policy leader, or practitioner focused on workforce development, labor economics, skills, education, or future-of-work issues preferred. • Former White House, federal agency, state workforce policy, or similar public-sector leadership experience is highly valued. • Strong written, verbal, presentation, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to balance methodological rigor, public influence, relationship building, and commercial impact. • Ability to travel approximately once per month, with additional travel for major research launches, speaking engagements, and strategic initiatives. • Preference for candidates located in or near Washington, DC, due to the role’s policy, government, and ecosystem engagement responsibilities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity workplace • Commitment to diversity of thought and unique perspectives