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Since 2013, when Malt was founded by Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège, we have become Europe’s fastest-growing freelance marketplace. By acquiring Comatch (the Berlin-based leading marketplace for top freelance management consultants and industry experts) in 2022, we’re now home to a dynamic community of 550k+ freelancers, 70k+ companies, and 700+ Malters. We’ve built the industry’s leading freelance management solution — all on a powerful, data driven tech platform — to match companies with the right freelance talent.
But we’re more than just a connector. Our marketplace streamlines freelancer-client communications, simplifies administrative and legal tasks, expedites invoicing and payments, and so much more. Today, our company is growing fast! We need people like you to help us write this next chapter.
We are a tech company with a human approach 👽
- Strong company culture fueled by 700+ Malters from 40 countries- Offices and teams in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Middle East- Committed to equality and diversity (50% of people managers are women)- Strong career path policies allowing all Malters to develop and grow equally- Backed by renowned investors including ISAI, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs and BPI France- Recognized twice by LinkedIn as one of the best start-ups to work at
Context for this position
- Malt is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct and contribute to research on the topics of online biases and discrimination. The research will bring actionable insights and guide the company’s decisions
- It is well established that there are risks of biases and discriminations in traditional and online labor markets, coming from algorithms, humans, and market design (among other sources). As the European leader in freelancing, Malt has a responsibility to identify such cases and mitigate them.
- The objective of the researcher will be to assess whether there are outcome and opportunity gaps between freelancers from different demographics and, if there are, identify their sources. The researcher will also propose and test solutions - offline through counterfactual analysis and/or online through randomized experiments.
- The researcher will be part of the data team, an international team with about 30 members with a variety of profiles, including 6 PhDs (in economics, computer science, and environmental sciences).
Key responsibilities
- The postdoctoral researcher will be responsible both for interfacing with Malt’s academic partners and for conducting research internally. We want to emphasize that this is a research and development position and therefore the work goes beyond the analysis of data and production of insights. We list below examples of typical tasks
- Defining research questions, setting research plans and methodologies
- Data cleaning, processing, and analysis
- Sharing datasets, explaining the data to academic partners, inquiring internally about the sources of the data
- Setting up online experiments and surveys, and coordinating with the engineering, data science, and product teams
- Building data tools, training and evaluating models, pushing code in production, building and storing tables in our cloud
- Disseminating the results internally and externally (conferences, publications).
- Administrative tasks (eg. reporting expenses from research funds)
- This position does not incorporate independent research outside the scope of the company; any independent research would be conducted outside of regular work hours
About the work contract
- Fixed-term contract / Contrat à Durée Déterminée (CDD)
- Duration: 2 years
- Salary: in the range 50-60k€/year depending on skills and experience
- Position can be full-time or part-time (3+ days per week)
- Start date: preferably before September 2024, but negotiable
- Location: strong preference for Paris, with flexible working arrangements
About you
- The strongest candidates love being hands on, demonstrate curiosity, and are eager to learn new skills. They are good communicators, enjoy collaboration and are particularly driven by impact.
- PhD (completed by start of employment) in economics, statistics, social sciences, computer science or any other scientific discipline with expertise relevant to the problems and methods described above
- Experience with econometrics / causal inference
- Excellent coding skills (preferably Python) and experience conducting empirical projects
- Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to set goals, track progress, and prioritize to meet deadlines
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Fluent in english
Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫
- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options - Lunch vouchers (legal benefit): €9/day on your Swile card.- Transportation (legal benefit): 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)- Healthcare insurance (legal benefit)- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off- Sports: Company participation to a Gymlib membership- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, Malters is entitled to a one month paid sabbatical leave.- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow.- Remote work: Hybrid remote policy - Annual team building events
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