Staff Behavioral Scientist

📋 Description

• Establish and maintain the scientific foundation of the new venture, ensuring products and market
• Apply industrial-organizational psychology principles to product, research, and positioning
• Design and validate new psychometric instruments, measurement scales, and scoring models
• Ensure new assessments and methodologies meet rigorous scientific standards
• Conduct applied research with pilot customers, including criterion and construct validation
• Evaluate whether the product delivers measurable workplace outcomes and generate evidence to

🎯 Requirements

• PhD or equivalent applied experience in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational
• Approximately 8-10 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in an early-stage company
• Deep practical expertise in psychometric development, including scale construction, Item Response
• Demonstrated experience conducting applied validation research in real organizational settings
• Strong understanding of assessment science, workplace behavior, organizational psychology, and
• Ability to translate rigorous scientific findings into actionable guidance for product development

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements, with option to work remotely anywhere in the United States, from
• Opportunity to join a small, dedicated team of approximately 13 people
• Ground-floor ownership of a new venture with meaningful influence over scientific direction and
• Direct collaboration with venture leadership and cross-functional teams
• Access to AI tools and ongoing training
• Opportunity to contribute to an established behavioral science legacy