Thursday, December 01, 2016

Director Research Amazon Seattle

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
You are a thought leader partner. You earn trust through deeply understanding your stakeholders and invent new paths to diagnose and solve organizational challenges. You develop diverse strategies to serve diverse client groups. You guide your team through execution and develop and export top-performing talent. You generate unexpected insights through developing bold ideas. You are an expert, and influence deep-dives that lead to root causes. You deliver persuasive, evidence-based business cases for action and change that ultimately result in an improved employee experience.
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Job responsibilities

Team leadership and mentoring.
Establishing team and business research priorities, identifying and communicating risks and mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders; developing and maintaining goals, milestones and completion dates.
Defining, driving and championing new technologies, collaborations, and improved processes to define, leverage, and implement world-class analysis including defining strategic business questions, implementing measures, data sources, methodology and study design, data set creation, analysis execution, interpretation, presentation and publication of results.
Optimizing and using operational metrics to drive process improvement and efficiency with a focus on creating scalable, repeatable research methodologies
Overseeing and tracking research, ensuring studies are documented and implementing continuous inspections of study design and data analysis.

Basic Qualifications

8+ years of relevant research related experience
4+ years leading a team
Expert in training teams in analyzing large quantities of data
Expertise with MS Excel required
In depth understanding of competing statistical analysis tools: R, SPSS, SAS
Excellent written and verbal skills
Excellent written/verbal communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams
Demonstrated ability to understand and apply technical concepts and communicate with technical teams
Proven ability to thrive in a high energy environment where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel
Master’s degree Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Statistics, Survey Research or equivalent program

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Statistics, Survey Research or equivalent program
Fluency in one or more language other than English is preferred.
Familiarity with the recent trends in employee engagement and development
A passion for data visualization
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