BetterUp, Inc. seeks an Applied Behavioral Scientist in Austin, TX:
Job Duties:
- Design and run innovative product research spanning disciplines and modalities to answer fundamental questions about the inner life and wellbeing improvement of individuals personally and professionally.
- Analyze both new and existing data to generate insights for both internal (product, marketing, solutions consulting) and external (research community, prospects, customers) audiences.
- Develop and execute against best practices for collaboration, maintenance, aggregate sense-making, and reporting of applied analytics projects.
- Manage and refine a rigorous testing pipeline for emerging behavioral interventions, including agile measurement adaptation alongside new product directions and deep synthesis and design prescriptions based on the pipeline’s cumulative and progressive results.
- Contribute to methodology advancement for creatively analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale qualitative/open-ended, longitudinal, group-level, and cross-cultural data, while simultaneously advancing our analytics to further frontiers as new data sources come online.
- Produce written and visual reports of findings, both for internal presentation and for conferences and/or academic publications.
- Study and surface significant emerging findings from multiple behavioral disciplines (applied psychology; computational/data science; behavioral economics; cognitive neuroscience; health science) to inform experimentation and other relevant business decisions.
Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. degree, or foreign equivalent, in Social Psychology, or a related field.
Special Skill Requirements:
- Leading and conducting scientific research in behavioral science and positive psychology;
- Survey and experimental design;
- Statistics including multilevel modeling, ANOVA, nonparametric statistics, multivariate statistics, and social network analysis;
- R, SQL, and R-related products including Rmarkdown, Rnotebook, and the Tidyverse packages (dplyer and ggplot) as a toolset for statistical analysis, visualization, and interactive reporting in the context of large and/or complex data sets;
- Qualtrics survey programming;
- Translating research for a general audience;
- Qualitative research methods;
- Conducting applied behavioral science research in the health or mental health industry.
Telecommuting and remote employment permitted.
Submit resume with references to: Req.#: L22-12877 at: ATTN: L Gagliardi, Manager, People Operations, BetterUp, Inc., 1200 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA, 94103.
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