People Research Scientist

Key Responsibilities

• Design rigorous research and evaluation strategies for recruiting, organizational health, manager effectiveness, employee experience, and talent outcomes.
• Apply advanced statistical modeling, machine learning, and research methods to inform program design, evaluate effectiveness, and quantify business impact.
• Partner with People Operations, data engineering, and people systems teams to define data requirements, improve data quality, establish documentation standards, and ensure research datasets are governed, reproducible, and privacy-preserving.
• Build scalable people science infrastructure, including self-service agentic tools, automated validation workflows, reusable research datasets and analytical pipelines.
• Develop research playbooks that establish rigorous standards for study design, measurement, validation, and documentation, enabling high-quality, repeatable, and scalable research across the organization.

Key Requirements

• Deep curiosity, strong attention to detail, and passion for solving ambiguous and complex problems with creativity.
• High proficiency in R or Python and SQL, with experience working across complex, messy datasets.
• Experience building measurement systems, research programs, data products, reusable analytics frameworks, self-service tools, and governed analytical workflows.
• Ability to communicate complex methods and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders, technical partners, and non-technical audiences.
• Sound judgment in handling sensitive employee data, including privacy, fairness, bias, and responsible research practices.