Applied Behavioral Scientist

BetterUp, Inc. seeks an Applied Behavioral Scientist in Austin, TX :

Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.

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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