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Staff EconomistBrex • San Francisco, CA, United States
Staff Economist

Staff Economist

Brex • San Francisco, CA, United States
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Why join us

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Marketing at Brex

The Marketing team tells the Brex story, determines messaging and positioning, and translates our products and features into tangible customer benefits. Our marketers — across Revenue Marketing, Product Marketing, and Brand Marketing — are responsible for acquiring new customers and have a deep understanding of the business. We’re a highly cross‑functional team and partner most closely with the Product, Sales, Business Development, and Design teams to show our prospects and customers how we can help them reach their full potential.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an economist and storyteller who can review and query large amounts of Brex data to uncover the signals hidden within. You will turn this data into narratives that shape how the world understands corporate spending, finance, and business behavior.

You’ll partner with Content, PR, and Data teams to create thought‑leading research, craft benchmark reports, and publish insights that make Brex the authority on how modern companies spend and operate.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our San Francisco Office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of two coordinated days in the office per week, Wednesday and Thursday. Starting February 2, 2026, we will require three days per week in office – Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

  • Be a creative thought leader with Marketing, PR, Data on sourcing and validating data journalism that could be created from Brex data
  • Conduct original economic research and analysis using Brex and external datasets to surface new insights about business, finance, and spending behavior
  • Identify stories that matter from our Brex data. From data‑backed trends to counterintuitive findings – and translate them into clear, compelling narratives for founders, CFOs, and the media
  • Partner closely with PR and marketing teams to craft external reports and establish new benchmarks
  • Serve as Brex’s public voice on economic insights and corporate spending trends, engaging with media and industry in collaboration with the PR team
  • Build relationships with internal and external subject‑matter experts, data scientists, and customers to surface exclusive insights and anecdotes
  • Partner with growth and SEO team to expand distribution to third parties
  • Maintain newsroom‑grade standards of accuracy, ethics, and sourcing
  • Collaborate with social, video, and design to package stories for maximum visibility

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in research and analysis, narrative development, and journalism, ideally in finance, business, or tech
  • Experience analyzing markets and evaluating data from multiple sources to produce culturally relevant charts, infographics, reports, articles, etc
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, or R to develop story‑telling analysis in tools like Hex, Snowflake or Sagemaker
  • Demonstrated ability to publish or contribute to high‑quality research in economics, finance, or related fields
  • Strong communication skills for translating technical findings into actionable insights for diverse audiences
  • Ability to build collaborative partnerships with data, content, design, social, and PR teams
  • Compensation

    The expected salary range for this role is $240,000‑$300,000 USD. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

    Please be aware, job‑seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

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