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• Conduct statistical analyses connecting multiple sources of organizational data to provide accurate, thoughtful, and actionable insights on people issues and strategies
• Partner with teammates, leaders, and stakeholders across Employee Success (HR) and Salesforce to develop a deep understanding of current and emerging people issues and challenges, identify priorities for research, and execute impactful research projects, evaluations, and analyses
• Assist in the redesign of our employee surveys and listening program by identifying and advising on which data/questions are most impactful/informative at different points of the employee lifecycle
• Work proactively to identify emerging opportunities for research insight and propose new research projects or analyses
• Provide subject matter expertise and advice on research design, data collection, survey/questionnaire design, and/or program evaluation to technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute to developing and executing on the team’s research agenda
• Collaborate with data engineers to access data and explain data requirements
• Collaborate with people analytics consultants to communicate findings to senior leaders and business partners
• Communicate analyses and results, along with implications, to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrate impeccable ethics and judgement when dealing with confidential data
• Share research insights both inside and outside the organization to become a thought leader in this space

• PhD in a field emphasizing people research in organizations (e.g., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Management, Organizational Development, or related degree)
• Experience conducting empirical research in organizations, including research design, data collection, statistical analysis, interpretation of results, and making actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategies, needs, and priorities into research questions or hypotheses, and select and apply appropriate research methods and/or statistical analysis approaches to provide actionable insights back to the business.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct analyses using R Studio, R, or Python, specifically data cleaning, manipulation, basic descriptive analyses, mean difference testing, and range of regression analysis approaches.
• Subject-matter expertise and experience in employee surveys/employee listening, applied organizational research methods, and program evaluation.
• Deep expertise or specialization in at least two areas related to employee experience, such as but not limited to: leadership, learning and development, employee wellbeing/occupational health, employee engagement and retention, diversity and inclusion, teams, organizational change and development, employee motivation/reward/performance, or organizational culture.

• Expertise and applied experience in at least one advanced analysis technique such as multilevel modeling/HLM, latent growth modeling (LGM), time series analysis, NLP or topic modeling, ONA or other similarly advanced/novel/emerging analysis techniques.
• At least 2 years experience in either an industry or applied research setting
• Experience working in tech or other fast-paced industry setting
• Demonstrated expertise and interest in questionnaire/survey design and employee listening approaches

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