Behavioral Scientist

The Opportunity

Science isn’t a feature on this team. It’s the foundation.

We’re looking for a Behavioral Scientist to own the scientific integrity of a new PI venture from day one. You’ll be working on a lean, fast-moving team chartered to explore, validate, and build a new market — and you’ll be the person who makes sure every claim we make, every instrument we ship, and every insight we surface can withstand the scrutiny of the most skeptical HR buyer, legal team, or academic reviewer.

This role is for someone who sees I/O psychology not as a credential, but as a craft.

What you’ll do

Provide the scientific foundation and defensibility of the venture’s claims.

• Apply industrial-organizational psychology — assessment science, team dynamics, leadership, engagement, and job fit — to product, positioning, and research decisions.
• Design and validate any new psychometric instruments, scales, or scoring models the product requires, holding them to the same scientific bar as PI’s existing assessments.
• Run applied research with pilot customers — criterion and construct validation, efficacy studies, norm development — to prove the product produces the workplace outcomes it promises.
• Translate peer-reviewed I/O and organizational behavior research into product features, UX, and go-to-market messaging that HR leaders and business leaders will trust.
• Own the scientific defensibility of the venture’s claims — technical manuals, validity evidence, white papers — so the new product inherits the credibility bar PI is known for.

What you bring

If you’ve got all of the below, drop what you’re doing and apply. If you’ve got most of it, we still want to hear from you.

• A PhD (or equivalent applied experience) in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Psychometrics, or a closely related field.
• Deep hands-on experience in psychometric development: scale construction, IRT or CTT, validation design, and norm development.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct applied validation research in real organizational settings — not only academic labs.
• Fluency translating rigorous science into language that product teams can build from and buyers can trust.
• Comfort working at the frontier, where the research agenda, the product roadmap, and the go-to-market strategy are all still being written.
• Passion for using AI in every aspect of your work — we're an AI-forward team that expects every member to take full advantage of modern tools to sharpen thinking, move faster, and extend the team’s capacity.
• A builder’s mindset. This team moves fast, operates lean, and expects every person to cover surface area beyond their title.

What it’s like here

This is not a support role embedded in a large organization. You’ll be one of twelve people on a team operating like a venture-backed startup — with its own stack, its own cadence, and its own mandate to find and validate a new market. You’ll report directly to the venture lead and work alongside product, engineering, and go-to-market functions all operating at the same pace.

PI is headquartered in Westwood, MA, and is geo-flexible for candidates with the right fit. This is an exempt, salaried position ($120,000 - $140,000) with full access to PI’s benefits package, including unlimited PTO and 401(k).