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Posted 1 weeks agoSenior Behavioral Scientist
at BetterUp
Austin, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Ensure measurement frameworks are statistically sound, scalable, and aligned to client decision-making.
- - Build rigorous ROI models and business cases that quantify the financial and organizational impact of the solution.
- Data Storytelling & Executive Communication - Develop high-impact data narratives that translate complex analyses into clear, compelling executive insights. - Create and deliver Business Value Reviews that demonstrate measurable value realization. - Influence senior client stakeholders by connecting data to strategic priorities and operational decisions.
Requirements
- Qualifications - PhD in Behavioral Science, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Economics, or a closely related field Preferred
- experience presenting to large audiences and executives both virtually and in person. -
- Experience researching and understanding businesses including business strategy, identifying business challenges, and applying business acumen.
- - Strengths in verbal and written communication, building and delivering presentations, and storytelling - Expertise and comfort working with quantitative and qualitative data (basic statistics, examining patterns, developing recommendations based on data).
- - Exceptional communication skills and the ability to craft and deliver a narrative that moves hearts and minds.
- Experience operating inside high-growth SaaS, human transformation platforms, or people tech companies is a plus.
- - A mindset rooted in outcomes, ownership, and long-term impact - Applies AI-driven tools and insights to enhance client engagement, identify growth opportunities, and improve account performance (e.g., personalization, upsell targeting, churn prediction) - Uses AI-generated insights and data analysis to quantify impact on client outcomes (e.g., retention, expansion, ROI) and inform strategic account recommendations
Experience
- Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career, doing life-changing work in a fun, inventive, soulful culture.
Benefits
- And when you get an offer from us (and accept it), you get way more than a paycheck.
Additional details
- Let’s face it, a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship. We do.
- We can’t cram it all in here, but you’ll start noticing it from the first interview.
- You get a personal BetterUp Coach, a development plan, a trained and coached manager, the most amazing team you’ve ever met (yes, each with their own personal BetterUp Coach), and most importantly, work that matters.
- This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience.
- But for people with fire in their belly, it’s a game-changing, career-defining, soul-lifting move.
- If that sounds exciting—and the job description below feels like a fit—we really should start talking.
- We are a hybrid company with a focus on in-person collaboration when necessary.
- Employees are expected to be available to work from one of our office hubs at least two days per week.
- Our hub locations include: Austin, TX; New York City, NY; Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA; and the Washington, DC metro area.
- Please ensure you can realistically commit to this structure before applying.