Visitor Research & Tourism Economist
About the job
- Experience in tourism economics, visitor research, travel-demand analysis, or related public-sector research.
- Strong quantitative analysis skills and the ability to communicate results in decision-ready reports.
- Comfort working as a 1099 or project-based collaborator, with travel as needed for client on-sites.
- Design or evaluate visitor, travel, and tourism research methods and instruments.
- Analyze visitor volume, spending, markets, travel behavior, seasonality, and economic contribution.
- Build defensible forecasts, dashboards, tables, and written findings from survey and administrative data.
- Explain methods, limitations, and implications to agency leaders, community stakeholders, and industry audiences.
- Contribute tourism research and economic-analysis qualifications to AlphaGov proposals when permission is granted.
- Experience with a state tourism office, destination management, visitor surveys, or tourism forecasting.
- Experience with Hawaii, island, coastal, or destination economies.
- Econometric, survey-methods, geographic information systems, or data-visualization skills.
About the company
AlphaHire provides a workforce intelligence platform for capital-intensive industries such as construction, data centers, energy, and private equity. It uses signals from hundreds of sources across many labor markets to deliver current, decision-ready data on labor availability, compensation trends, and hiring competition, not as a recruiting service. The platform offers structured products—Labor Availability Assessments, Workforce Due Diligence for M&A, Expansion Readiness, and Workforce Risk Monitoring—to support capital decisions. Its goal is to help executives and investors reduce operational risk and improve project cost outcomes through better workforce planning and risk visibility.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 data center tracker flags 140-plus competing projects and constrained electricians.
- AlphaHire says live compensation intelligence runs on trailing 90-day offer activity.
- The 2026 research lab ties federal-award data to near-term demand spikes.
What critics are saying
- AlphaHire depends on public data, and OEWS lags live market moves by twelve months.
- Competitors copy market dashboards fast; Bloomberg, Lightcast, and LinkedIn can bundle alternatives.
- If data-center capex freezes in 2027, AlphaHire's premium labor-intelligence category shrinks fast.
What makes AlphaHire unique
- Founded 2018, AlphaHire sells decision-grade workforce intelligence, not recruiting or staffing.
- Its 2026 Observatory monitors 180 labor markets and 500-plus sources continuously.
- Labor Availability Assessment and Early Warning System frame Go, Conditional, No-Go capital decisions.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Performance Bonus