We seek inquisitive, resourceful, analytical individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. A passion for understanding human behavior, pursuing innovation, and promoting the social good is critical, but prior expertise or training in behavioral science or psychology is not required. At ideas42, all team members play an active role on multiple projects across several domains, and make significant contributions to the development and structure of the organization. All positions provide a pathway to more senior roles within ideas42 and are excellent preparation for a wide range of roles in both the private and public sectors.
Current Openings
We’re a rapidly growing organization with a team of over 75 people working on more than 85 projects in the U.S. and abroad. We apply our expertise to a range of domains, including consumer finance, criminal justice, poverty alleviation and economic opportunity, health, higher education, and environmental conservation. Our work begins with re-conceptualizing problems, designing new solutions and testing them in the field, then finally scaling them up to reach millions of people. Examples of projects include:
- Partnering with public universities to design and test behavioral strategies for increasing student retention and degree completion rates, such as an innovative mechanism for disbursing financial aid refunds at community colleges.
- Working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a “behavioral audit” of the welfare system.
- Partnering with some of the nation’s largest financial institutions to design and refine consumer-centered products such as prepaid credit cards, and help underserved individuals build a better financial future with improved tools for tracking their spending and managing debt.
- Working with service and technical assistance providers to improve the quality of family planning and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Conducting executive education classes to teach senior-level executives.
Diversity Statement
As an organization committed to bettering the world through behavioral science, ideas42 seeks to produce the best outcomes for the people touched by our work. We put a high value on hiring people with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and skills because we know that when it comes to solving hard problems with uncertain solutions, heterogeneous teams produce better work. In order to ask the right questions, we must engage in robust debate, empathetic inquiry, and rigorous analysis. These practices depend on a team with a wide array of knowledge, built through both formal training and lived experience. In constructing our team, we look for talented and hard-working people who share our mission and core values, and who can expand the perspectives and skills of the ideas42 team.
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