Senior People Scientist (12 month FTC)

The Wrap; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee equity

Learning programs

Wellbeing allowance

Parental leave

Home office setup budget

Annual social impact days

Medical insurance (US/UK only)

Job summary

Culture Amp is seeking a People Scientist to join our customer-facing team in Australia. You will help clients design and analyze surveys, uncover HR insights, and translate data into practical strategies to elevate workplace culture and outcomes.

In this mid- to senior-level role (12-month fixed term), you will collaborate with senior stakeholders, lead design sessions, and build domain expertise across the customer team while contributing to coaching and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience consulting to organisations and/or as a subject matter expert; enterprise-level preferred
• Experience with surveys across the employee lifecycle (candidate, onboarding, engagement, inclusion, exit)
• Experience designing, implementing and analysing surveys and presenting insights to executives/HR leaders
• Comfortable with data; basic knowledge of statistics and research methods
• Proficiency with Google Docs/Sheets and willingness to learn new tech systems
• Bonus: implementing or designing performance management for large-scale organisations

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers (pre-sale and post-sale) to design and build people-centric feedback surveys
• Lead survey design and results review sessions with HR leaders and CEOs
• Use client data to identify themes and stories to improve culture and business outcomes
• Generate actionable insights from HR data sets including engagement and lifecycle surveys
• Build and deliver People Science insights for external audiences as part of Culture Amp marketing
• Support and develop domain expertise for customer-facing teams through coaching and training

Skills

Survey design

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Data storytelling

HR analytics

Education

Master’s in Organisational Psychology

Master’s in Organisational Development

Master’s in Business Analytics

Tools

Google Docs/Sheets

Job description

We're big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together.

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

The People Scientist role entails being a thought leader in the HR, engagement and/or performance management space while assisting customers with question design, analyzing results, and establishing feedback strategies for our customers at the organization, group, and individual level.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please read on. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box.

Your greatest skill is listening and understanding our customers’ needs and providing clarity around direction and feedback and performance strategy. You love people and your passion lies in diving into data to uncover stories and provide insights, as well as imparting knowledge to up-skill customers and coworkers. We are looking for an energetic and hard-working professional to work with a close-knit customer team that takes users all the way from leads to champions.

We want someone who shares our passion for simplifying and applying data analysis and domain research with the goal of elevating our clients’ effectiveness while also building our community of amazing People Geeks. This position is for a mid- to senior-level role with no direct reports. This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

In part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Collaborate with customers (pre-sale and post-sale) to design and build people-centric feedback surveys
• Lead survey question design and results review sessions with a variety of client stakeholders, from HR leaders to CEOs
• Work with client data and survey outcomes to identify the most valuable themes and stories to help our clients improve their culture and business outcomes
• Generate actionable and predictive insights from HR data sets, including engagement surveys, lifecycle surveys (on-boarding to exit), performance management, and individual/team effectiveness feedback
• Build and deliver People Science insights with broad external audiences, as part of Culture Amp marketing activity (i.e. host webinars, roundtables, workshops, conference keynotes across Australia, NZ and Singapore)
• Support and build domain expertise for our customer-facing teams through coaching,
• training and/or responding to internal queries

You have

• 5+ years of applied experience consulting to organisations and/or working as a subject matter expert within an organisation. Enterprise-level is highly preferred
• Applied experience working with surveys throughout the employee lifecycle (candidate, on-boarding, engagement, inclusion, exit) and/or 360-type feedback processes.
• Experience designing, implementing and analysing surveys, as well as presenting insights to executives and HR leaders
• Comfortable with data; basic knowledge of statistics and research methods
• Proficiency in the usual software tools (i.e. Google docs/sheets) as well as a willingness to learn and work with new technology systems
• Master’s in Organisational Psychology, Organisational Development, Business Analytics, or related field
• Bonus points: Experience Implementing or designing performance management processes for large scale organisations

Perks & Benefits

At Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes:

• Equity through our Employee Share Option Program, so you can share in our long-term success
• Learning programs and coaching to help you thrive and grow
• Quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break and a monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Inclusive parental leave from day one
• A MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace, enabling flexibility
• Five annual social impact days to to give back to causes that matter to you
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Our rewards are designed to support different needs and life stages, recognising that what matters most can vary from person to person.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement, but your unique experience matters.

Accommodations & Data Privacy

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Culture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. For further information please see our privacy policy here or contact [e-mail].