Lirio is hiring a
Behavioral Research Scientist

Summary

The Behavioral Research Scientist role is a remote position within the Behavioral Science team of an organization. The role involves supporting research operations across various domains, designing and executing research projects, managing administrative aspects of research, and assisting with preparing research reports. A PhD in psychology, behavioral economics, public health, or related field, 3-5 years of experience in research coordination, administration, operationalization, and dissemination, and strong research operations skills are required.

Requirements

• PhD in psychology, behavioral economics, public health, or related field required
• 3-5 years of experience with research coordination, administration, operationalization, and dissemination

Responsibilities

• Assist with study design, preparation, documentation, monitoring, evaluation, synthesizing, and compiling and presentation of results
• Execute qualitative research (e.g., recruit participants, develop interview guides, conduct research sessions) and quantitative research (e.g., develop surveys, data processing, data analysis)
• Construct, combine, clean, and properly document large datasets for analysis
• Manage administrative aspects of formal, user, and UX research such as vendor renewals, ethics training requirements, Institutional Review Board documentation, and survey platform administration
• Execute literature reviews (e.g., conduct literature searches, generate summaries, synthesize findings)
• Assist with preparing research reports, briefs, presentation decks, manuscripts for peer review, and other external communications
• Interact effectively with behavioral science team on a day-to-day basis and work under tight deadlines to meet intervention development deadlines
• Balance responsibilities across multiple concurrent studies

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in applying research insights to health preferred
• Education in cross-cultural psychology or experience working in international contexts a plus

Benefits

• Salary range: $90,000-$125,000
• Medical (HSA available)
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
• Life & AD&D (company-paid)
• 401K with company match
• 10 paid holidays + holiday week company closure
• Flexible time off policy
• Work from home