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Applied Behavioral Scientist

Type: Contract

Ranging from 5-10 hrs/wk depending on your availability & the number of projects you’re working on.

Location: Fully Remote, must be in U.S. time zone

Compensation & Benefits: We invest in first-rate people and pay top-of-market salaries for most positions, factoring in experience and talent.

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We are looking for seasoned Behavioral Scientists with a minimum of 3-5 years applied experience in finance/fintech, energy, and/or healthcare/digital health. Your role will include designing and building qualitative and quantitative research projects with the support of our Strategy and Behavioral Science advisors. You will also be meeting with our clients (senior executives in marketing, product, research) to give them practical/actionable advice on using Behavioral Science in their day to day projects.

You'd be a good fit if you have:

Graduate Degree: With a focus on Behavioral Science, Psychology, Research Methods, Economics, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), or similar.
Experience: Min 3-5 years of applied experience. Must have industry/work experience.
Areas of Expertise: Applied experience in finance, energy, and/or health. Applying Behavioral Science in digital marketing and digital product design.
Client Management Skills: Have strong client management skills. Ideally at a behavioral consultancy or as a behavioral scientist at a company.
Strong Presentation Creation Skills: Skilled at organizing complex information and crafting compelling presentations that clearly convey research insights to stakeholders.
Research Method Expertise:
- Statistical analysis tools such as R, Python, or SQL.
- Survey and experimental design with tools such as Qualtrics or Usertesting.com.
- A/B Testing in marketing channels (paid social, email, SMS, etc).
- Experience eliciting insights from design, behavioral, and/or market research to inform product or process decisions.

Your day to day:

Every day is different depending on the project and objectives, but you can expect to lead research projects through:

Client Discovery & Ideation: Evaluating data, understanding target metrics, differentiating between product knowledge, intuition, and assumption. Generating solutions for client challenges based on scientific literature and through participating in team brainstorm and prototyping sessions.
Experimentation: Leading the design and build of both large and small scale randomized control experiments of rigorous quality.
Communication: Create cogent research findings presentations and participate in presenting to senior executives in oral and written formats.

We don’t need you to manage the research projects as we have a team of project managers & account strategists responsible for the day to day management of projects.

Types of clients & projects:

We primarily work with tech companies and social impact organizations.
Type of client challenges we’ve faced:
- How do we encourage sign ups for a new savings app.
- How do we increase the number of women that sign up for 401k or use financial planners and tax advisors?
- How do we increase enrollment in mental health benefits?
- How do we improve adoption for a feature that existing users already have access to?
- Understand if a vanity number resonates with audience.
- Developing scripting for sales teams to increase client satisfaction and booking rates.

What we need:

If this sounds like a good fit to you, please submit your resume and a brief cover letter.