Director, Global Economist
Morning Consult
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington, DC • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $146,300 - $243,400 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as Morning Consult's senior global economic subject matter expert in client and prospect conversations, bringing credibility and dynamism to engagements with global corporate clients.
- Partner with commercial teams to advance strategic opportunities, support pitches, and strengthen long-term client relationships by connecting macroeconomic and geopolitical developments to clients' business outcomes.
- Develop reproducible analytical frameworks for global and foreign market assessments, drawing on Morning Consult's proprietary high-frequency data and external sources.
- Build and maintain AI-agent and GPT-layer outputs that scale economic and geopolitical analysis across client use cases.
- Lead original economic and geopolitical research projects, with a particular focus on how political and economic dynamics — elections, trade policy, energy geopolitics, monetary regimes — translate into business risk and opportunity.
- Collaborate with the Economics Team to ensure analytical quality, methodological rigor, and forward-looking relevance.
- Drive survey data collection efforts that shed light on complex political and economic dynamics — trade flows, monetary policy, energy markets, supply chain disruption — and distill that data into clear, actionable narratives for senior executive audiences.
- Develop and publish high-quality economic and geopolitical analysis— reports, briefings, data analyses, op-eds — that build Morning Consult's profile among global corporate and financial audiences.
- Conceive and lead webinars, client events, and media engagements that demonstrate Morning Consult's differentiated perspective on the intersection of markets, policy, and geopolitics.
- Contribute to inbound marketing strategy, with analysis designed to generate qualified leads and deepen engagement with existing clients.
- Work closely with product, marketing, and strategy teams to ensure economic and geopolitical intelligence is integrated into Morning Consult's data products and client solutions.
- Serve as an internal resource and thought partner for commercial teams navigating global economic questions in client engagements.
- Contribute to team knowledge-sharing and mentorship within the economic intelligence function.
Requirements
- Master's in international political economy, economics, international relations, or a closely related field — SAIS (Johns Hopkins), SFS (Georgetown), or SIPA (Columbia) graduates particularly encouraged to apply.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in a research, advisory, or analytical role with demonstrated exposure to global economic and geopolitical dynamics, including professional experience conducting time series analysis
- Proven ability to operate in client-facing or commercially oriented environments — you are as comfortable presenting to a boardroom as you are writing a research memo.
- Strong command of macroeconomics and the ability to connect political developments — trade policy, energy geopolitics, monetary regime shifts — to real-world business outcomes.
- Track record of producing high-quality written analysis that is both intellectually rigorous and accessible to non-specialist audiences.
- Comfort working with data, building reproducible analytical outputs, and contributing to AI-assisted research tools.
Benefits
- This role is eligible for additional variable compensation
- Equity grant
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
time series analysismacroeconomicsdata analysisanalytical frameworkseconomic researchgeopolitical analysisAI-assisted researchdata collectionreport writingbriefing development
Soft Skills
client-facingpresentation skillswritten communicationmentorshipcollaborationstrategic thinkinganalytical rigornarrative developmentengagementthought leadership
Certifications
Master's in international political economyMaster's in economicsMaster's in international relations