Associate U.S. Economist, Business and Economic Insights

Visa Economist Opportunity

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 06-30-2026.

We are seeking an intellectually curious recent economics graduate student with a passion for applied economic analysis and interest in learning more about the payments industry to join our team of economists covering the U.S. market. The role will leverage data to help tell the economic and payment industry stories most relevant to our clients and executives.

Are you passionate about applying data to help businesses navigate changes in the economy? We have an exciting opportunity for a recent economics graduate student to contribute to the work of our macroeconomics team covering the U.S. region. The Associate U.S. Economist) will work as part of a team of U.S. economists to apply economic analysis to the payments industry, generating business intelligence for internal and external clients.

Key responsibilities include:

• Assist members of the U.S. economics team in researching and analyzing key macroeconomic trends as they impact consumer spending and the payments industry.
• Build and leverage artificial intelligence (AI) agents to generate insights from data, including from our proprietary consumer survey dataset.
• Work with other members of the U.S. economics team to develop economic content for the team's client presentations and U.S. economics publications.
• Utilize internal Visa data along with external data sources to generate key economic and payments industry insights.
• Build and maintain data visualizations for key macroeconomic and payments industry data.
• Support the team's merchant focused content generation and client facing deliverables.
• Participate in the team's economic and industry forecasting efforts including forecast model construction and maintenance.
• Provide general research support for special reports and ad-hoc requests.
• Aggregate third-party research and update other team members through verbal and written summaries.
• This position is project focused and typically requires managing multiple projects and priorities within strict time constraints.
• Develop and maintain relationships with internal Visa stakeholders and partners.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Graduate degree in economics or an undergraduate degree with a Certified Business Economist (CBE) designation required.
• Strong interest in economics with knowledge attained through coursework, individual study or prior work experience.
• Advanced problem solving skills and basic understanding of econometrics is required. Experience constructing time series economic forecast models would be a plus.
• Previous experience conducting applied economic research using AI tools including Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. required. Experience building AI agents to streamline research and data analysis would be a plus.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn or expand knowledge of the payments industry and financial services.
• Self-starter with the ability to manage priorities and adapt as required to a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication…