Associate - Behavioural Science

Keystone is a premier economics, technology, and strategy consulting firm built to help companies lead through transformation. As breakthrough innovations reshape industries, redefine competition and change our society, complex and highly competitive ecosystems emerge. Keystone advises technology leaders, Fortune 100 companies, their legal counsel, and governments on business, economic, litigation, and regulatory strategy in relation to these innovations and competitive eco-systems.

We operate globally from offices in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Dubai, and Washington, D.C.

This role sits at the intersection of technology, markets, and human behaviour, applying behavioural science to high-stakes business, regulatory, and litigation questions.

In this role you will use behavioural economics, psychology, and marketing science to analyse how consumers and firms respond to information, incentives, and choice architecture. This includes designing surveys and experiments, analysing observational data, and synthesizing evidence to assess consumer beliefs, decision-making, and market outcomes, drawing on established methods and design principles, supported typically by behavioural academic research and literature.

Your work directly informs expert opinions, regulatory assessments, and litigation outcomes.

• Analysinghow defaults, disclosures, and information design affect consumer and advertiserbehaviour.
• Conducting conjoint and simulation-based studies to assess switching, preferences, and competitive effects.
• Evaluating consumer understanding of data use, privacy practices, and platform communications.
• Designing experiments to assess how marketing claims and disclosures influence purchasing decisions and willingness to pay.
• Desig ning and criti quing consumer and bus ines s surveys fo r use in competi tion and merger litigation

Keystone teams are highly interdisciplinary. While you will specialize in behavioural science, you will contribute across a broad range of questions and practice areas, typically working alongside economists, data scientists and technologists.

As an Associate or Consultant, you will:

• Own core analytical work streams from design through execution.
• Work across economics, strategy, and technology engagements.
• Adapt quickly to new problem areas and apply your skillset in unfamiliar contexts
• Synthesize findings into clear, decision-relevant insights

• Design and execute surveys,behaviouralexperiments, and simulation-basedstudies.
• Analyse observational and experimental data using Python, R, Stata, or similar tools.
• Apply methods such as conjoint analysis, choice modelling, and causal inference.
• Evaluate robustness, test alternative specifications, and assess limitations to ensure defensible results.
• Own end-to-end work streams, from study design through analysis and interpretation.

• Conduct targeted research across behavioural economics, psychology, and marketing science.
• Review academic literature, prior cases, and regulatory materials.
• Adapt established methodologies to case-specific questions.
• Develop hypotheses and analytical approaches by integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence.

• Translate analyses into clear, precise, and persuasive narratives.
• Draft sections of expert reports explaining methodology, results, and implications.
• Develop exhibits (tables, charts, figures) to communicate findings effectively.
• Ensure all work is well-documented, reproducible, analytically rigorous and able to withstand scrutiny.

• Master’s degree in Behavioural Science or similar.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Behavioural Economics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Data Science, Quantitative Research Methods or a related field.
• Experience in consulting, academic research, market research, or a related analytical role
• Hands-on exposure to experimental design, survey methods, or behavioural research
• Evidence of academic or professional excellence and leadership

• Strong foundationinbehaviouraleconomics, microeconomics, psychology, or marketing science.
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