Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is hiring a Data Scientist - Employee Research to support People Analytics and organizational research. The role leads end-to-end studies on employee experience, engagement, workforce dynamics, and organizational effectiveness, translating findings into recommendations and reusable research methods.
Responsibilities
- Frame organizational questions, develop hypotheses, define outcomes, and identify the decisions research should inform
- Design and execute quantitative and mixed-method studies using survey, cohort, longitudinal, multilevel, experimental, quasi-experimental, and causal methods
- Integrate employee, HRIS, talent, performance, movement, operational, open-text, interview, and focus-group data where appropriate
- Study drivers and consequences of employee experience, including team, manager, workforce, and organizational factors
- Conduct driver, segmentation, trend, and linkage analyses to explain engagement and sentiment and identify actionable factors as well as relative business impact
- Evaluate people programs, manager initiatives, and organizational changes by defining outcomes, baselines, comparison groups, and follow-up measures
- Contribute to workforce research and planning through scenario analysis, workforce-risk indicators, and analysis of workforce supply, demand, capability, and movement
- Establish foundational use cases, data requirements, methods, and governance for Organizational Network Analysis and related research on collaboration, influence, connectivity, and change
- Assess emerging methods, including text analytics and artificial intelligence, when they address a defined research or business need
- Translate findings into clear recommendations, decision options, and measures of progress for technical and non-technical audiences
- Produce research briefs, executive presentations, evaluation readouts, measurement frameworks, and analytical documentation
- Partner with stakeholders to shape questions, challenge assumptions, and connect evidence to action
- Maintain reproducible, well-documented work through version-controlled code, transparent assumptions, quality checks, and clear limitations
Skills
- Experience in data science, quantitative research, people analytics, organizational research, behavioral science, or a related field
- Strong Python or R skills and proficiency in SQL for data wrangling, statistical analysis, and reproducible research
- Expert knowledge of regression, hypothesis testing, survey methodology, psychometrics, experimental and quasi-experimental design, causal inference, and longitudinal or multilevel analysis
- Experience leading end-to-end research or analytical projects, from problem formulation through communication of findings
- Ability to explain complex analyses to non-technical audiences and exercise sound judgment with sensitive employee data
- Advanced degree or equivalent applied research experience in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Science, Sociology, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Psychometrics, or a related field
- Experience with employee surveys, engagement and sentiment, performance, movement, retention, talent, workforce planning, or lifecycle data
- Experience with intervention evaluation, longitudinal or panel analysis, multilevel modeling, mixed methods, text or NLP analysis, or Organizational Network Analysis
- Experience with workforce planning, scenario modeling, organizational effectiveness, manager and team research, organizational development, or change evaluation
- Demonstrated ability to shape research questions, influence HR or business leaders, and translate evidence into responsible action
Benefits
- An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement savings plan
- Sickness and accident benefits
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation & holidays
- Tuition assistance programs
- Employee assistance program
- GM vehicle discounts
- This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.
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