Remote Freelance Data Scientist — Survey Research & Analytics

Stryker Corporation; Evanston, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation seeks an experienced freelance researcher with advanced data science, research design, and translational research capabilities. You will partner with leadership across advocacy research, messaging polls, and climate surveys, contributing to surveys as a core deliverable.

Responsibilities include drafting surveys, cleaning data, producing deliverables with clear visuals, and communicating complex results to stakeholders in a remote work setting.

Qualifications

• PhD preferred or equivalent experience in a quantitative field.
• Ability to design and manage quantitative research from start to finish.
• Knowledge of polling and public opinion research best practices.
• Proficiency with R or STATA for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Draft survey instruments using social science best practices.
• Clean and process survey data, including weighting.
• Produce topline results, memos, and data visualizations.
• Design and execute research projects using client data.
• Explain quantitative results to diverse audiences.

Skills

Quantitative research

Survey design

Data cleaning

Statistical analysis

Research communication

Education

PhD in quantitative social science or equivalent experience

Experience designing and conducting quantitative research

Tools

R

STATA

Qualtrics

SurveyMonkey

Job description

Stryker Corporation seeks an experienced freelance researcher with advanced data science, research design, and translational research capabilities. You will partner with leadership across advocacy research, messaging polls, and climate surveys, contributing to surveys as a core deliverable.

Responsibilities include drafting surveys, cleaning data, producing deliverables with clear visuals, and communicating complex results to stakeholders in a remote work setting.