Economics Research Lead

About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp’s all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

We’re looking for an Economics Research Lead to drive the future of Ramp’s economic research and market insights capabilities. Our goal is to position Ramp as a credible expert in how companies spend and operate. We also want to position Ramp as a resource that companies can leverage for granular decisions: establishing that we can help your company with your problem. This person will be Ramp’s spokesperson and industry expert on all things data.

What You’ll Do

• Act as Ramp’s spokesperson on economic insights and corporate spending trends, engaging with media, academia and industry

• Conduct high-impact economic research and analysis that informs customers and builds Ramp’s reputation as an expert in corporate spending and financial trends

• Partner closely with comms and marketing teams to deliver insights, craft external reports, and establish new benchmarks

• Collaborate closely with P/E/D/D (product, engineering, data and design) teams to scale and automate our reporting, build customer facing data products, and expand the scope of Ramp’s external insights

• Expand data distribution to strategic third parties, ensuring Ramp’s data + economic research reaches a wider audience of industry decision-makers.

What You Need

• Strong expertise in economic research, with a proven ability to build and distribute high quality research based on financial trends 

• Exceptional communication skills, with a track record of presenting economic insights through media, journalism, research and more

• Strong technical ability with SQL (e.g. Snowflake), python (for data analysis), BI + Notebook Tools (e.g. Looker, Hex), data visualization, experience distributing data insights via reports, dashboard, and data products

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly improving, start-up environment that focuses on solving problems with iterative technical solutions

Nice-to-Haves

• Data engineering grade familiarity with a modern data stack (e.g., Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Hex, Hightouch or equivalents) and data modeling best practices

• Experience with financial technology, corporate spending patterns, or B2B financial services, particularly within the payments space

• Established relationships within academia, industry analysts, or data platforms (e.g., Crunchbase, PitchBook) to expand Ramp’s data reach and influence

• Advanced degree in economics, publications in economic or financial journals, partnerships with academic institutions

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

  • Partially covered for your dependents

  • One Medical annual membership

• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)

• Flexible PTO

• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)

• WFH stipend to support your home office needs

• Wellness stipend

• Parental Leave

• Relocation support for NY

• Pet insurance

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.