Staff Behavioral Scientist

The role

You will provide the scientific foundation and defensibility for a new venture. You will apply industrial-organizational psychology to product, positioning, and research decisions.

What you will do

• Apply industrial-organizational psychology to product, positioning, and research decisions.
• Design and validate new psychometric instruments, scales, or scoring models.
• Run applied research with pilot customers including criterion and construct validation, efficacy studies, and norm development.
• Translate peer-reviewed I/O and organizational behavior research into product features, UX, and go-to-market messaging.
• Own the scientific defensibility of the venture's claims including technical manuals, validity evidence, and white papers.

Required qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent applied experience) in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Psychometrics, or a closely related field.
• 8-10 years of applicable experience, particularly in an early stage company or on an early stage product that does not yet have product market fit.
• Deep hands-on experience in psychometric development: scale construction, IRT or CTT, validation design, and norm development.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct applied validation research in real organizational settings.
• Fluency translating rigorous science into language that product teams can build from and buyers can trust.
• Comfort working at the frontier where the research agenda, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy are still being written.
• Passion for using AI in every aspect of your work.
• A builder's mindset.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k)
• Access to AI tools
• Ongoing training to use AI tools

Before you apply

• The Predictive Index participates in E-Verify.

About the company

The Predictive Index is a leader in workplace behavioral science. The company's mission is Better work, Better world.