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People Research Scientist

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design rigorous research and evaluation strategies for recruiting, organizational health, manager effectiveness, and talent outcomes using advanced statistical modeling and machine learning.

Role type

Senior individual contributor People Research Scientist

Builds

Scalable people science infrastructure, self-service agentic tools, automated validation workflows, and reusable research datasets

Domain

Human Resources / Organizational Psychology / Data Science

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis | research

Required skills

research design, experimentation, measurement, causal inference, statistical modeling, psychometrics, survey methodology, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, randomized controlled experiments, A/B testing, quasi-experimental design, machine learning evaluation, R, Python, SQL

Preferred skills

evaluating AI-assisted workflows, algorithmic systems, human-AI decision processes, model evaluation methods

Technologies

R, Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Design research strategies for people programs; apply statistical modeling and ML to quantify business impact; partner with data teams to govern research datasets; build scalable analytical pipelines; develop research playbooks; communicate findings to senior leaders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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