Maki
Senior Business Psychologist
New York , Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Senior Business Psychologist will build client relationships and guide them through the assessment lifecycle. You will apply psychological theories to improve assessment and selection procedures and create custom competency frameworks.
What you will do
- Build strong client relationships and guide them through the assessment lifecycle
- Apply psychological theories and methodologies to improve assessment and selection procedures
- Conduct research and analysis to identify key psychological factors and competencies
- Create custom assessments and competency frameworks tailored to client needs
- Ensure the test bank is diverse, inclusive, and covers core competencies
- Work with Onboarding, Customer Success, Psychometricians, AI Scientists and Assessment Operations
- Communicate validation studies and statistical insights to non-technical audiences
- Share information with external stakeholders on AI technology integration
- Ensure test development and AI-driven hiring systems adhere to ethical and compliance standards
- Assist in training internal teams on psychological best practices
Required qualifications
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Experience in job analysis and developing competency frameworks
- Excellent understanding of AI applications in assessments
- Strong understanding of ethical considerations and compliance standards in assessment development
- Ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences
- Expert knowledge in assessment design, validation studies, and psychometric methods
- Advanced research skills to design and execute studies
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Familiarity with industry-specific challenges and trends
- Strong writing skills for professional documentation
- Experience with data analysis or programming tools (e.g. SPSS, JASP, Mplus, R, Python)
- Strong knowledge of test content creation and review processes
About the company
Maki People's Science team develops high-quality content, including assessments, AI-driven scoring algorithms, and tools to predict performance and potential.