Associate, Economics

Chart Your Journey at Secretariat

From a collaborative culture to teammates who will always be by your side, find a career that will grow with you. Deliver your impact at Secretariat.

ABOUT THE FIRM

Secretariat is a consulting firm that helps companies, law firms, and organizations solve complex business problems—often when there is a dispute, investigation, major project challenge, or high-stakes decision involved. At Secretariat, you’ll work on some of the most important legal, risk, and regulatory challenges facing businesses around the world.

From your first day, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team of smart, curious, and driven people who enjoy solving complex problems. You’ll learn by working alongside experienced professionals and contributing to projects for leading law firms, global companies, and major institutions.

Our teams collaborate across offices and disciplines, bringing energy, fresh thinking, and commitment to every client challenge. We invest in your growth through hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, recognition, and a culture that values diverse perspectives.

Start your career where your work matters. Make your impact at Secretariat.

ABOUT OUR ECONOMICS TEAM

Secretariat’s Economics team helps clients understand the numbers behind major business and legal questions. As part of our casework, our team members may analyze the impact of a merger on competition, estimate company losses in a dispute due to patent infringement or stolen trade secrets, determine employee fair compensation, or study the effect of market rules and regulations on businesses. Much of our work supports complex litigation, regulatory investigations, and business disputes, where our economists analyze evidence and help explain economic issues to courts, regulators, and decision-makers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Launch your career by putting your classroom skills to work on real cases, real data, and real business challenges. As an Associate, you will use your curiosity, analytical mindset, and communication skills to help clients navigate high-stakes decisions while learning directly from experienced experts in economics, intellectual property, finance, and litigation consulting.

Associates play an active role on project teams, working under the supervision of experienced case managers and alongside recent graduates and PhD economists to address complex business challenges.

This opportunity is ideal for students who enjoy asking “why,” digging into data, solving puzzles, researching new industries, and writing reports that turn complex information into a clear story.

The skills you develop as an Associate can support a wide range of career paths in consulting, economics, finance, analytics, and beyond.

If you are excited by economics, finance, math, data, or coding—and want a role where you can grow quickly, contribute early, and see the impact of your work—Secretariat is the place to build that momentum.

What you’ll get to do:

Dive into real-world data to uncover what is happening in companies, markets, and industries

Support quantitative analysis, including gathering, processing, and analyzing data, and conduct qualitative market and industry research

Explore business issues that go beyond the textbook by researching companies, competitors, and industries

Turn numbers, research, and analysis into insights that clients and legal teams can act on

Create clear visuals and presentations that bring complex ideas to life

Build hands-on experience with tools like Excel, R, Stata, or Python

QUALIFICATIONS

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, data science or a related field

Able to start between January 2027 and September 2027

Minimum GPA of 3.5

Comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and experience with Stata, Python, or R

Enjoys solving problems, thinking logically, and using analysis to support recommendations

Has experience working with data through coursework, projects, research, internships, or other hands-on activities

Brings curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to learn new tools, topics, and ways of thinking

Pays close attention to details, stays organized, and takes pride in producing high-quality work

Works well independently while also enjoying collaboration with teammates, mentors, and project leaders

Communicates clearly in writing and conversation, especially when explaining research, data, or ideas

Is authorized to work in the U.S. without needing sponsorship now or in the future

Interested in joining us? We’d love to learn more about you. Please submit your cover letter, resume, academic transcripts, and an academic writing sample.

At Secretariat, we believe in pay transparency and equity. Compensation for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, and location. Further details will be provided during the hiring process.

Pay Transparency

$85,000 — $93,000 USD

A rewarding career above all

There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.

Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.

Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do – from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.

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