Lead Economist (Hybrid)

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do makes an affordable home a reality and a difference in the lives of Americans. Every day offers compelling opportunities to modernize the nation's housing finance system while being part of an inclusive team using new, emerging technologies. Here, you will help lead our industry forward, enhance your technical expertise, and make your career.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice to, and lead the team in analyzing market, government, and business data in conjunction with monitoring and interpreting economic trends specializing in Collateral Analytics (which includes real estate valuations & real estate sales functions).

In this role, you will develop and be responsible for developing models and analysis supporting our collateral management functions, in particular looking to optimize or automate aspects of our loss mitigation platform for property maintenance, marketing strategies, valuation methods, and sales. You will conduct and review research to understand borrower, lender, investor, and/or other behaviors, as well as coordinate team efforts to present findings and recommendations through reports, authoring of research white papers, and presentations to advise internal and external business partners, policy makers or other audiences. 

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Single Family - Economics - Lead Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities: 

• Provide guidance and leadership to the team's research efforts, using public and company data to inform and quantify the impact of proposed or implemented policy changes. Conduct research to understand prior market, social, or other developments relevant to internal or external stakeholders using statistical and other recognized methods. 
• Apply research best practices to the development and ongoing improvement of econometric models, forecasts, indices, and surveys, including the evaluation of Fannie Mae's products and policies. Lead the team in applying processes and operationalizing statistical tools and models to provide analysis for downstream users (e.g. our automated workflow decisioning tools, reserve bidding guidance, sale price setting, and sales performance analyses). 
• Collaborate with the team and provide guidance on conducting analyses that provide valuable information to internal or external decision makers when setting company policies, developing business products, and improving the analytic assets of the company. 
• Ensure the team is up to date on economic, market, and regulatory developments along with relevant academic and practitioner research. 
• Translate findings for non-technical audiences, such as industry partners or business customers. 

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 2+ years in relevant industry (business process optimization or real estate valuation functions preferred) 
• Expertise in using statistical methods, including developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions 
• Skilled in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data 
• Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, R or Power BI 
• Skilled gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions 
• Skilled in the drafting of technical documentation to support both econometric analysis and system implementation 
• The group of skills related to Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages (R and SAS) 

Desired Experience

• PhD Economics degree or equivalent 
• Partnering with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal 
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process 
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand 
• The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally and planning and distributing communication, etc. 
• The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc. 
• The group of skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecast