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The Content Marketing team is looking for an Applied Behavioral Scientist to support critical research, data analysis, and behavioral insight generation in support of marketing content pieces such as research reports, insight blogs, popular press articles, and other data driven content. This individual will provide essential support to the marketing team, arming them with advanced analyses, data visualizations, narrative style insights, and pragmatic recommendations from the world’s largest data on coaching in service of human thriving. You’d aid in conducting analyses and preparing materials that will support marketing assets, speaking events, and thought leadership pieces. Blending academic rigor with the magic of storytelling, we are looking for someone who is passionate about analytics, translating science to practice, and telling powerful stories through data to help companies support the well-being and performance of their people. 

Having an interest in applying your domain and analytic expertise in new and creative ways is a plus!

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct strategic research to fill in gaps that serve needs across the marketing and go to market teams
• Independently ideate on research questions and hypotheses that could answer key questions 
• Partner internal to the content marketing team and with the broader science team at BetterUp to identify and align on methodology 
• Propose novel and innovative methods for optimizing the value of our data
• Drive and manage research projects using both internal and externally, including programming surveys and administration of research studies
• Manage relationships with external research vendors
• Pull, clean, and merge data 
• Conduct advanced analytics (with quantitative and qualitative data)
• Iterate with analyses to uncover the most compelling findings and insights 
• Use clever and compelling data visualization strategies to generate impactful graphics 
• Support efforts to create repeatable, scalable analytics (e.g. elegant code and output documentation) 
• Describe data and findings in a way that is accessible to a broad audience 
• Support the searchability, organizations, and dissemination of research findings internally and externally through building and maintaining centralized repositories and catalogs

Required Skills / Experience

• Expertise in research methods and experience designing and executing psychological and/or behavioral science research studies.
• Knowledge base in survey design, scale building, and psychometrics
• Deep experience in data analysis in the social sciences with a strong command of R and the Tidyverse packages (e.g., dplyer & ggplot) as a toolset for statistical analysis, visualization, and interactive reporting in the context of large and/or complex data sets
• PhD in I/O Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Educational Psychology or a closely related area

• Minimum intermediate experience with Excel, Powerpoint, Google Sheets, and Google Slides
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strong storytelling skills, especially around research findings and data. 
• Interest in translating insights from science-to-practice for actionable recommendations
• High growth mindset and work to learn attitude
• Attention to detail and a high bar for craftsmanship
• Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Domo, and Mode is highly valued. 
• Experience with SQL is not required but is nice to have

Working Situation

• Fully remote to start. Opportunity to work in one of BetterUp’s global offices is a potential.
• Virtual meeting and collaboration tools will be provided such as Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts, etc. 
• Full-time 
• Start Date - ASAP

Benefits: 

At BetterUp, we are committed to living out our mission every day and that starts with providing benefits that allow our employees to care for themselves, support their families, and give back to their community. 

• Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member 
• A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
• Full coverage for medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer Paid Life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• Per year: 
• 13 paid holidays 
• 4 BetterUp Inner Work days (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
• 5 Volunteer Days to give back
• Learning and Development stipend
• Holiday charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp
• 401(k) self contribution

BetterUp Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, BetterUp Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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