Senior Economist (Remote)

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain high-quality analytical datasets, economic indicators, dashboards, and reporting frameworks using First American's proprietary data assets.
• Conduct economic, housing, mortgage, property, transaction, and broader real estate market analysis to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and emerging market dynamics.
• Apply critical thinking and quantitative analysis to transform complex data into actionable insights, research content, and market intelligence.
• Identify, validate, document, and operationalize vetted datasets and methodologies that support scalable and repeatable research and reporting.
• Support the development of predictive models, forecasting frameworks, and analytical tools related to housing, mortgage, transaction, and broader economic trends.
• Partner cross-functionally with data, analytics, product, marketing, communications, and business teams to improve data quality, usability, consistency, and insight development across research initiatives.
• Develop research briefs, market commentary, presentations, dashboards, and customer-facing analytical content that support market education, customer engagement, and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to webinars, presentations, conference materials, media support content, or other thought leadership initiatives as appropriate.
• Create clear business definitions, metrics, reporting logic, and analytical documentation to support consistency across dashboards, reports, presentations, and market insights.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for differentiated insights using First American's proprietary data assets across residential, commercial, and broader property market segments.
• Present research findings and market insights to internal and external stakeholders as needed.

What You'll Bring:

• M aster's in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science (PhD preferred), or an equivalent discipline with 2-3 years of related work experience; or BS/BA with 4+ years of related post-graduate work experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in economic analysis, applied research, market insights, or data-driven analytics, preferably within real estate or related markets.
• Strong understanding of real estate markets, including property data, mortgage and transaction activity, and broader macroeconomic drivers across residential and commercial markets.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and market intelligence.
• Experience working with large and complex datasets using tools such as SQL, Python, R, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, or similar analytical and visualization platforms.
• Knowledge of statistical methods, economic forecasting, time series analysis, and predictive modeling techniques.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience developing research content, presentations, reports, dashboards, market commentary, or customer-facing insights.
• Comfortable presenting insights in meetings, webinars, customer discussions, or industry forums as needed.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across analytics, product, research, marketing, and business teams in a fast-paced and matrixed environment.
• Strong attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).

First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant's criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.