Senior Research Scientist, Executive Engagement & Insights

Job Description:

• Lead studies end to end: frame questions, design measurement, run analyses, and write findings
• Shape flagship research reports and partner studies
• Combine Syndio pay-decision data with external labor-market, survey, and benchmark data
• Build reusable research methods
• Build outcome and ROI models connecting pay governance to attrition, cost, risk, and performance
• Join executive conversations at strategic accounts and translate findings for CHROs and CFOs
• Bring customer questions back to shape future studies
• Partner with product and data science teams to incorporate research into features, benchmarks, and reporting
• Co-author reports, articles, and executive briefings with source-traceable external claims

Requirements:

• A PhD or equivalent depth in industrial-organizational psychology, behavioral or decision science, labor economics, statistics, or a related field
• Track record of following applied research through to impact, beyond publication record
• Hands-on quantitative skills: causal and quasi-experimental methods, psychometrics and survey design
• Working fluency in Python or R and SQL on large, messy, real-world data
• Comfort presenting findings to senior customers, including CHROs and CFOs
• Ability to work across data warehouses and boardroom-level discussions
• Judgment to work within strict data-use and privacy boundaries

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation: $164,000–$184,000 per year
• Syndio Equity
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Paid sick & safe time
• Compassion leave
• Voting leave
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision; Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents
• Life Insurance & Disability; Syndio covers the full premium
• 401(k)
• Fully remote model