Principal/Sr. Principal Economist

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Mumbai, Maharashtra
Senior level
Gaming • Sports • eSports
The Role
The role involves developing pricing strategies, conducting causal studies, managing the in-game economy, and informing key decisions for enhancing user retention in fantasy sports. It requires expertise in econometrics and applied economics, using programming tools to model and analyze data.
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Product Strategy @Dream11

The Product Strategy team is responsible for creating a powerful and focused strategy to drive user engagement and growth. The team works closely with the product & data science teams to solve problems around pricing, profitability & user experience.


We tackle these issues by building economic/econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business and system-level decision-making.

Your Role:

  • Develop pricing strategies that integrate price elasticity and long-term user retention
  • Design and conduct causal studies using observational and experimental data to drive key business decisions
  • Own and manage the in-game economy to effectively balance liquidity
  • Inform key decisions for fantasy sports experiences to drive retention

Qualifiers:

  • PhD in economics, statistics, finance, quantitative marketing, or related fields
  • 4+ years of post-PhD experience in applied economics with exposure to applied microeconometrics, empirical IO, and labor economics, along with experience of applying them to real-world problems
  • Experience in programming languages, such as Python, R & Julia

About Dream Sports:


Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 250 million users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier sports content & commerce platform and DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform.


Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ vision is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology.


For more information: https://dreamsports.group/

Top Skills

Julia
Python
R
The Company
HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
1,500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with 200 million+ users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball, on it. A homegrown Indian brand, Dream11 helps Indian sports fans to actively engage with real-life sporting events and showcase their knowledge of sports. Fantasy sports has been deemed a ‘Game of Skill’ by the honourable Supreme Court of India.

Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, one of the world's leading Sports Technology companies. Other brands under the Dream Sports umbrella include FanCode, a premier digital sports destination that personalizes content and commerce for all fans, DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform and Dream Pay, a payment gateway.

For more information: https://www.dreamsports.group/dream11
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