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Behavioral Scientist
Type: Part-time / Contract
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. Professional development & excellent benefits for employees.
Apply NowAt Next Step, you will be a part of a team that is developing custom research, marketing & product experiences that help companies connect with and motivate their users.
You'd be a good fit if you:
- Have a desire to understand processes as well as people and their behaviors, attitudes, and motivations
- Have a passion for empirical behavioral research
- Have experience and interest in doing applied work with clients outside the laboratory
- Want to combine qualitative and quantitative methods to identify actionable insights and scalable solutions
- Want to collaborate with other researchers, designers, copywriters, marketers, PMs
- Are deadline driven, organized, and able to manage multiple projects at a given time
- Are looking to work in an adaptable, flexible, and empathetic environment
- Have experience in one or multiple of the following industries: Fintech, B2B SAAS, Healthcare, Government, Nonprofit
Your day to day:
Every day is different depending on the project and objectives, but you can expect to support and lead projects through:
- Client Discovery: evaluating data, understanding target metrics, differentiating between product knowledge, intuition, and assumption.
- Research: gathering, analyzing, and communicating scientific research.
- Ideation: generating solutions for client challenges based on scientific literature and through participating in team brainstorm and prototyping sessions.
- Experimentation: supporting the design and building of both large and small scale randomized control experiments of rigorous quality.
- Communication: Cogently present research findings to senior executives in oral and written formats.
You should have:
- Graduate degree with a focus on Behavioral Science, Psychology, Research Methods, Economics, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), or similar
- 2-5 years experience with quantitative research techniques such as
- Statistical analysis tools such as R, Python, or SQL
- Survey and experimental design with tools such as Qualtrics or Usertesting.com
- Experience eliciting insights from design, behavioral, and/or market research to inform product or process decisions
- Experience with the following, a plus, but not required
- Applying Behavioral Science in a marketing context is a big plus
- Working in cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with qualitative research methods: 1:1 interviews, observational research etc.
What we need:
If this sounds like a good fit to you, please submit your resume and a brief cover letter.
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