People Research Scientist: Organizational Behavior & Hiring

CRUSOE; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity packages

Paid time off

Health, dental & vision insurance

HSA contributions

Professional development & tuition Re.

Mental health & wellness support

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a People Research Scientist to lead the People Science & Workforce Intelligence team. You will design and run rigorous studies on hiring, engagement, and organizational health across a distributed workforce including corporate, engineering, and field teams.

You will build evaluation plans, apply quasi-experimental methods, and communicate insights to executives. A PhD or Master’s in related fields and strong data skills are required.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in I/O Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Science or a related research field.
• Experience with applied experimental design, hypothesis testing, longitudinal methods and causal inference.
• Experience with survey design, psychometric methods and employee listening programs.
• The ability to work with structured and unstructured data via SQL, Python or R
• Experience in statistical analysis.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at every level with data visualization and storytelling skills.
• You enjoy challenging assumptions with data and changing established practices with objective analysis
• You enjoy teaching as much as you do learning from others.

Responsibilities

• Own research design and scientific inquiry across people programs, employee behavior and workforce outcomes.
• Run longitudinal studies to learn what creates long-term success, engagement, and retention as we scale.
• Synthesize external research and industry evidence on people interventions to find best practices and gaps.
• Partner cross-functionally to design and run systematic studies on employee experience, manager effectiveness and organizational health across corporate, engineering and field teams.
• Apply sound research ethics and data privacy practices to all employee research.
• Build evaluation plans into people programs from the start, including onboarding, manager development, learning, recognition, and retention or compensation programs.
• Estimate program impact using quasi-experimental methods such as staged rollouts, difference-in-differences, matching and regression discontinuity.
• Define success measures and leading indicators that tie people programs to business outcomes such as time to productivity, retention of critical talent, and site readiness.
• Give clear recommendations on what to scale, change or stop.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to design and validate structured interviews.
• Run validation studies that link hiring signals to on-the-job performance and retention.
• Monitor adverse impact and fairness across hiring stages, and advise on legally defensible, job-related selection practices.
• Evaluate any AI-assisted hiring tools for validity, fairness and candidate experience before and after rollout.
• Act as a POC for assessment vendor relationships where scale/speed require additional support.
• Help scale Crusoe's listening strategy, including engagement, pulse and lifecycle surveys.
• Use psychometric methods to validate survey instruments and make sure measurement is reliable across job families and locations.
• Reach frontline and field employees, and account for the response and sampling challenges of a distributed workforce.
• Turn findings into recommendations and actions that leaders can own.
• Build clear visualizations that make complex findings easy to understand for different audiences.
• Present findings and actionable recommendations to executive leadership.
• Partner with the rest of the People Science & Workforce Intelligence team to build self-service analytics and products that let HR business partners and People team answer their own questions.

Skills

Research design

Longitudinal methods

Experimental design

Hypothesis testing

Survey design

Psychometrics

SQL

Python

R

Data visualization

Communication

Teaching

Education

Master's or PhD in I/O Psychology or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Crusoe is seeking a People Research Scientist to lead the People Science & Workforce Intelligence team. You will design and run rigorous studies on hiring, engagement, and organizational health across a distributed workforce including corporate, engineering, and field teams.

You will build evaluation plans, apply quasi-experimental methods, and communicate insights to executives. A PhD or Master’s in related fields and strong data skills are required.