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Research Head of Research - 12 month Fixed Term Contract at Moonpig

Leads a research team to generate customer insights and behavioral data that inform strategic business decisions and growth opportunities across the organization.

Lead Hybrid Posted 15 minutes ago RemoteFirstJobs Product
What this role involves

We’re the Moonpig Group – home to Moonpig, Greetz, Red Letter Days and Buyagift – and we’re on a mission to make people feel loved, celebrated and remembered. Whether it’s a card that gets them laughing out loud or a gift that makes their day, we help people stay close, no matter the miles.

We’re proud to be leading the online gifting revolution, with brilliant products, clever tech and a whole lot of heart. Our platform makes it easy to create moments that matter – packed with personal touches and delivered with care.

We’re not just about selling cards or gifts – we’re here to spread joy, spark smiles and make every celebration feel extra special. And with values that guide how we work and support one another, we’ve built a place where people (and ideas) can truly thrive.

If you’re looking to make an impact, bring your spark and be part of something meaningful – we’d love to have you on the team. 🌙🐷

Head of Research – 12 Month Maternity Cover | 📍London – Hybrid (2 days per week) | 💰Competitive Salary + Benefits

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Head of Research to join Moonpig on a 12 month maternity cover contract, working hybrid 2 days per week in the office. You will need to be available to join end of November - early December.

Research at Moonpig goes beyond understanding what customers think. We combine customer insight, behavioural data and commercial context to identify the problems that matter, uncover opportunities for growth and help the business make better decisions.

You’ll join an established Research function with a high performing team of three, and a clear strategy and roadmap already in place. This isn’t about starting from scratch. It’s about getting up to speed quickly, building strong relationships and keeping momentum behind the work that matters.

Over the 12 months, you’ll lead and develop the team, deliver our key research priorities, strengthen the Voice of the Customer and help more teams across Moonpig access and use quality research.

We’re looking for someone pragmatic, confident and focused on delivery. Someone who can turn customer understanding into action and make sure Research continues to have a meaningful impact on our customers and Moonpig’s growth.

Key responsibilities:

  • Own and deliver the Research roadmap against Moonpig’s highest-priority customer and business questions, making clear decisions about where Research can have the greatest impact.
  • Lead, coach and develop our Research team, creating clarity around priorities while maintaining engagement and quality.
  • Continue building the team’s capability in new methods, technology and AI.
  • Scale research capability across Moonpig, helping teams conduct appropriate research independently while maintaining a high bar for quality.
  • Develop training, coaching, tools, templates and clear standards that make quality research easier to access across the business.
  • Make customer insight more visible, accessible and influential, bringing customer evidence into strategic and day-to-day decisions.
  • Continue evolving how we capture and share what we know about our customers, including exploring how AI can make insight easier to access and apply.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Moonpig and confidently represent the customer in senior conversations.
  • Use customer evidence to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and influence product, commercial and strategic decisions.
  • Turn complex customer evidence into clear, actionable recommendations that help teams move forward.

About you:

  • Significant experience in UX, Product, Customer or Consumer Research within a digital or product-led organisation.
  • Experience supporting, coaching or developing research teams, with a collaborative and supportive approach.
  • Strong track record of delivering research programmes and initiatives from idea through to implementation.
  • Broad understanding of qualitative and quantitative research, with good judgement about the right level of research for the decision at hand.
  • Ability to quickly understand an existing strategy and roadmap, identify what matters most and create momentum behind it.
  • Strong project delivery skills, with a pragmatic and outcome-focused approach.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including confidence working with senior leaders.
  • Strong customer focus and an ability to bring customer needs into business conversations and decisions.
  • Strong synthesis and storytelling skills, turning complex evidence into simple, useful recommendations.
  • Experience enabling and coaching non-researchers to conduct effective research while maintaining appropriate quality standards.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions and moving work forward.
  • Curiosity about AI and emerging research technology, particularly how they can help researchers and organisations learn faster.
  • A collaborative, approachable working style and the ability to build strong relationships across different teams.

Interview Process:

  • Stage 1 - Recruiter Screening Call (30 mins)
  • Stage 2 - Initial Conversation with hiring team (45 mins)
  • Stage 3 - Presentation & Discussion (60 mins)

Our process may vary depending on role and availability. We keep candidates informed of any changes.

What’s in it for you?

We believe in empowering our team to do their best work. Enjoy:

💰 Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus, generous pension plans & staff discounts.

💆🏽 Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK) and mental health support

🏖️ Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (1-3 days in office, depending on role/team) & up to 20 days of international working.

📈 Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching & development programs.

Want to know more?

Explore our full benefits package: here

Our Ways of Working:

We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and offer flexibility to support a balance between work and life. At the same time, face-to-face office time is an important and expected part of working at Moonpig Group. We believe regular in-person working supports collaboration, alignment, and effective decision-making. Candidates will have regular and ongoing time working from the office as part of their role, which will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Moonpig Group’s Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity:

At Moonpig Group, we’re all about creating a workplace where everyone feels they truly belong. We celebrate what makes each of us unique, whether that’s our background, how we work best, or what matters most to us.

From working parents who need flexible hours to neurodiverse colleagues with specific working styles, we’re here to support our people in ways that work for them. Because when you feel valued and included, you can thrive, and so can we.

We’re proud to have a number of employee-led groups driving this forward, including our LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity and EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) communities, plus our Group-wide EDI committee. These teams help make sure every voice is heard and every idea has a place.

We know that diversity fuels creativity, innovation and connection, and that’s why we’ll keep pushing for progress. Together, we’re building a culture where everyone feels safe, supported, and free to be their brilliant, authentic selves.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply and share your pronouns if you are comfortable to do so😊 - If you have any reasonable adjustment requests throughout the interview process please let us know on your application or speak to the Recruiter.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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Research Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI

Develops and applies advanced AI/ML research to build agentic systems that guide users through real estate decisions at scale.

Lead Posted 1 day ago Himalayas
What this role involves
About the teamThe Agentic AI team at Zillow is transforming the real estate industry by helping millions of people navigate one of the most important decisions of their lives with AI-powered guidance.
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Research Director of Data Science and Bioinformatics

Leads data science and bioinformatics teams to develop analytical capabilities for women's health and organ health products.

Lead Posted 6 days ago Jobicy AI
What this role involves
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and grow the Data Science and Bioinformatics function supporting Natera’s Women’s Health and Organ Health product portfolios. In this role, you will build...
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Research Director of Data Science and Bioinformatics

Leads data science and bioinformatics teams to develop analytical solutions for women's health and organ health product portfolios.

Lead Posted 7 days ago Jobicy AI
What this role involves
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and grow the Data Science and Bioinformatics function supporting Natera’s Women’s Health and Organ Health product portfolios. In this role, you will build...
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Research Algorithm Team Lead at Taboola

Lead algorithm engineers designing and optimizing bidding strategies using mathematical optimization and control theory, partnering with engineering to deliver production systems at scale.

Lead Hybrid Posted 22 days ago RemoteFirstJobs Product
What this role involves

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Team Leader on the Bidding Strategies Algo team in our TLV Office, you’ll play a vital role in shaping how Advertisers bid in real-time auctions at massive scale. You will lead the optimization of our existing bidding strategies and the design of new ones, formulating bidding problems mathematically, applying control-theoretic methods, and analyzing the complex dynamics of a closed-loop. By guiding team members and partnering closely with engineering, you’ll turn theoretical insights into robust production solutions. Your work will directly influence advertiser ROI efficiency across thousands of advertisers.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

  • Advanced academic training (MSc/PhD) with strong grounding in applied mathematics, optimization, control theory, or a related quantitative field
  • Strong Algorithmic Problem-Solving Experience (6+ years), and 2+ years of Managerial or Technical Leadership Experience
  • Production-Grade Algorithm Engineering Experience
  • Experience Driving Measurable Business Impact Through Algorithmic Improvements
  • Experience interfacing effectively with engineering teams to deliver complex algorithms into production
  • Experience leveraging agent-based coding tools to accelerate development, experimentation, and code quality

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience with Real-Time Bidding, Auction Theory

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Lead the optimization of Taboola’s existing bidding strategies
  • Design and deliver new bidding strategies end-to-end into production
  • Drive deep analysis of complex dynamics and closed-loop feedback effects
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable systems
  • Lead and develop algorithm engineers
  • Play a part of Taboola’s tech organization’s growth in the agentic development era

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says:

“You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”

Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.

Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired.

Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, CondĂŠ Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.

About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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Research Director, Data Science & AI at TMB (Trusted Media Brands)

Directs data science and AI strategy, leads a team of data scientists, and oversees production-grade models and analytics solutions that drive business decisions.

Lead Remote Posted 23 days ago RemoteFirstJobs Product
What this role involves

About Us:

TMB is the community-driven entertainment company engaging more than 250 million consumers worldwide across streaming TV, social media, web, and print. Our portfolio of brands including FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, and The Pet Collective, is powered by content that’s inspired and created by our fans. Together our community sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at trustedmediabrands.com.

Location:

We have offices in New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Gurgaon. This position will be based in the United States and can work remotely.

About the role:

TMB is looking for a Director of Data Science & AI to lead the team and efforts to turn data into decisions, deliver scalable intelligence that drives personalized experiences and business outcomes, and lean into AI and Automation where it makes sense. You understand how business users think, what friction looks like in real workflows, and how to communicate technical solutions in ways that land with non-technical users.

Your primary mission is to bridge the gap between what’s technically possible and what’s practically useful. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll set the technical direction, but you’ll also be in the data, in the model reviews, and building alongside your team when it counts.  We need someone fluent in Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Vertex AI, and broader GCP ecosystem), has strong data science capabilities and the grit to take ideas from research to production.

You are a fast learner who is comfortable in ambiguity, energized by solutioning, and motivated by seeing your work drive real adoption across the organization. You’ll spend your time championing smarter ways of working and helping both technical and non-technical teammates integrate AI into their everyday work, not as a disruption, but as a natural extension of how they already operate.

Your day-day: (aka Responsibilities)

  • Own the data science roadmap for the organization from core statistical modeling and experimentation forecasting, segmentation and applied AI where it adds real business value
  • Lead, mentor, and stay hands-on with a small team of data scientists: writing code and reviewing methodology, not just roadmaps
  • Oversee the design of robust, production-grade solutions utilizing core cloud systems, vector databases, and agentic workflows
  • Champion the adoption and continuous improvement of AI development tools across technical teams
  • Scale MLOps/LLMOPs practices, ensuring data observability, governance, model safety, and ethical AI compliance
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Development, and Product teams to drive technical innovation, prioritize initiatives, ship MVPs fast and iterate based on usage data
  • Design and run rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses and guide business decisions
  • Translate statistical and technical work into business language for executive stakeholders and make the case for where data science investment should go next
  • Define success metrics for internal tools and AI initiatives, and track adoption, usage, and business impact over time
  • Document tools, workflows, and best practices to scale impact beyond individual engagements
  • Stay informed on industry trends, viral content, and emerging platforms to identify new opportunities

You have: (aka Qualifications)

  • 7+ years in data science, including leading or managing a technical team
  • Strong foundation in core data science
  • Deep, hands-on fluency in Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery, Vertex AI, and building/deploying production models in a GCP environment
  • Proficiency deploying custom Gemini Enterprise Agents via Agent Engine
  • Fluency in AI tools such as Claude, CoPilot and ChatGPT
  • Strong Python and SQL skills and experience in applied AI
  • A bias for action

About this team:

The Data Science team is a small but mighty group sitting at the center of the organization. We’re a centralized team, which means we work across nearly every department: from Marketing and Creative to BI, Engineering, Product, and beyond. If there’s a workflow to improve, a tool to build, or a data problem worth solving, chances are we’re involved.

Our work is practical by design. We build internal tools and data products that make real work easier, not to chase trends, but because the right solution at the right moment can meaningfully change how an entire team operates. We use AI where it genuinely helps, and we’re skeptical of hype for its own sake. That pragmatic instinct is part of what makes us effective.

As a team, we move fast and stay scrappy. We’re not a big org with lengthy approval chains. We prototype, iterate, and ship. We collaborate constantly, both within the team and across the business, and we’re at our best when we’re working alongside stakeholders to understand their problems firsthand rather than solving in a vacuum.

If you’re joining us, you’re joining a team that values curiosity, initiative, and craft. Our team genuinely believes the most impactful data work happens when technical depth meets real business context.

Our Benefits:

We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a Trusted Media Brands employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at Trusted Media Brands at https://www.trustedmediabrands.com/careers/.

Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Research Associate Director of Research, Vera California at Vera Institute of Justice

Leads research portfolio and team for criminal justice reform organization, designing studies, managing staff, and translating research into policy recommendations.

Lead Posted 29 days ago RemoteFirstJobs Product
What this role involves

About the team:

Vera California aims to advance policies and funding to reduce incarceration and support the community-based systems of care that promote safety and wellness in California. We use data and policy analysis to drive concrete change and center racial equity (e.g., sharing data analysis with state legislators on the potential impacts of criminal justice bills). We bring expertise on best practices from around the country to local conversations in California. We collaborate with government leaders and community partners on policy development and implementation, working together toward a new vision of safety, wellness, and racial justice for all Californians.

Our work covers diverse criminal justice reform issues in California. It includes developing policy recommendations around county-level jail incarceration processes; pretrial and bail reform issues; state and local budgetary processes; and general public safety debates in Los Angeles and statewide.

About the role:

The Associate Director of Research is a manager-level role that reports to the Initiative Director with a “dotted line” to the Institute’s Managing Director of Research. In this role, the Associate Director of Research leads all aspects of the team’s research portfolio, including designing research plans, directing the team’s research activities, collaborating with other Vera California leadership (the director and associate director) on overall strategy, and overseeing staff working across a range of methods and projects. As the leader of a small research team, they are expected to engage directly in the research and represent California’s research portfolio externally.

Associate Directors of Research at the Vera Institute of Justice bring experience managing research projects and teams, advanced methodological skills, and strength in leveraging research and evidence in support of policy and advocacy solutions. We are seeking someone for the California team who brings understanding of relevant administrative datasets and has fluency in advocacy and communications strategies in support of big goals.

1. Research Leadership

  • Develop, manage, and oversee all aspects of Vera California research, coordinating with the initiative director to ensure alignment with Vera California priorities and timelines, the managing director of research on methodological approaches, and other Vera teams on overlapping content areas
  • Supervise, support, and mentor Vera California research staff, and lead research hiring or recruitment as needed
  • Support the whole Vera California team in ensuring appropriate deployment of data and evidence in support of its solutions
  • Work with Vera California director and associate director as a management team on annual planning, program development, staffing plans, and fundraising
  • Serve as a member of the Vera Research Leadership Team, along with other associate directors of research, collaborating on cross-cutting research priorities and policy and ensuring that researchers across the organization receive appropriate support
  • Cultivate relationships with CA-based researchers and organizations in the field, including acting as a primary point of contact for Vera California’s research partnerships
  • Support internal collaboration by partnering Vera’s Advocacy Department, Communications Department, Central Research and Data Science teams, and other Vera initiative staff to develop coordinated strategies that leverage research (including in advocacy campaigns)

2. Research Design and Implementation

  • Serve as Principal Investigator on research projects, developing and presenting IRB applications when relevant and ensuring that research is conducted to the highest ethical standards
  • Lead/train/supervise on data collection and analysis, overseeing all aspects of mixed methods research and data management and analysis for Vera California and ensuring alignment between project implementation and policy timelines
  • Participate in hands-on data collection and analysis
  • Conduct team and cross-team peer review in areas of methodological and subject matter expertise and coordinate peer review for Vera California products as needed
  • Coordinate with central data science team to ensure appropriate data infrastructure and standardized approaches

3. Research Presentation and Products

  • Serve as a research subject matter expert and organizational representative in key areas of Vera California’s work, including in testimony, to media, in coalitions, and other public facing forums
  • Shape evidence-based messaging and research for Vera California’s work, overseeing development, writing, and editing of research publications and evidence-based products in support of Vera California’s goals, including short data-informed fact sheets that respond to rapid response advocacy inquiries

What qualifications are we looking for?

Required:

  • Advanced degree and 9+ years of relevant experience, preferably in a relevant social science field, like public policy, criminal justice, or sociology. In lieu of degree requirement, relevant work or life experience may be considered.
  • Several years of experience supervising interdisciplinary research teams and working with mixed methods research and/or researchers;
  • Experience conducting applied policy research
  • Subject matter expertise, including an understanding of current criminal legal systems and policy, particularly in the state of California as well as relevant data sets and sources

Preferred:

  • Direct experience with and/or impact by the criminal justice or immigration system

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities you’ll bring:

  • Associate Directors of Research are subject matter experts, experienced researchers, managers, mentors, and project leaders with advanced research design and analytic skills
  • Experience leveraging social science approaches in applied research settings
  • Track record of having worked on collaborative analyses and ability to support and build advocacy efforts and external stakeholder relationships
  • Commitment to race equity is required
  • Ability to travel up to 15% of the time. This may vary dependent on thelocation of the applicant.

Location:

Please note this role can be remote from California, with strong preference for Los Angeles-based candidates who are able to follow a hybrid schedule to Vera’s office in Los Angeles, CA.

Compensation and Benefits:

The compensation range for this position is $129,000 - $134,000.Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The salary range listed is just one component of Vera Institute’s total compensation package for employees. As an employer of choice in our field, supporting Vera staff - both personally and professionally - is a priority. To do this, we invest in the well-being of our staff through other rewards including merit pay, generous paid time off, a comprehensive health insurance plan, student loan repayment benefits, professional development training opportunities and up to $2,000 annual for education costs and fees relevant to Vera work, employer-funded retirement plan, and flexible time. To learn more about Vera’s benefits offerings, click here.

Application Process:

To receive further consideration for this career opportunity, applicants are asked preliminary questions about logistics, their interest and qualifications. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional details about their experience via a phone screen/form in advance of an invitation for a virtual or in-person interview with the team. Some searches may explore scenarios during the interview process and/or an assessment prior to reference checks and a hiring decision.

Applications may also be faxed to:

ATTN: People, Place, and Culture / [ JOBTITLE]

Vera Institute of Justice

34 35th St, Suite 4-2A, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Fax: (212) 941-9407

Please use only one method (online, mail or fax) of submission.

No phone calls, please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Vera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.

Vera works to advance justice, particularly racial justice, in an increasingly multicultural country and globally connected world. We value diverse experiences, including with regard to educational background and justice system contact, and depend on a diverse staff to carry out our mission.

For more information about Vera, please visit www.vera.org.

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Research Associate Director of Research, Vera California at Vera Institute of Justice

Leads research portfolio and team for criminal justice policy organization, designing studies and directing research activities to inform policy advocacy and reform.

Lead Posted 29 days ago RemoteFirstJobs Product
What this role involves

About the team:

Vera California aims to advance policies and funding to reduce incarceration and support the community-based systems of care that promote safety and wellness in California. We use data and policy analysis to drive concrete change and center racial equity (e.g., sharing data analysis with state legislators on the potential impacts of criminal justice bills). We bring expertise on best practices from around the country to local conversations in California. We collaborate with government leaders and community partners on policy development and implementation, working together toward a new vision of safety, wellness, and racial justice for all Californians.

Our work covers diverse criminal justice reform issues in California. It includes developing policy recommendations around county-level jail incarceration processes; pretrial and bail reform issues; state and local budgetary processes; and general public safety debates in Los Angeles and statewide.

About the role:

The Associate Director of Research is a manager-level role that reports to the Initiative Director with a “dotted line” to the Institute’s Managing Director of Research. In this role, the Associate Director of Research leads all aspects of the team’s research portfolio, including designing research plans, directing the team’s research activities, collaborating with other Vera California leadership (the director and associate director) on overall strategy, and overseeing staff working across a range of methods and projects. As the leader of a small research team, they are expected to engage directly in the research and represent California’s research portfolio externally.

Associate Directors of Research at the Vera Institute of Justice bring experience managing research projects and teams, advanced methodological skills, and strength in leveraging research and evidence in support of policy and advocacy solutions. We are seeking someone for the California team who brings understanding of relevant administrative datasets and has fluency in advocacy and communications strategies in support of big goals.

1. Research Leadership

  • Develop, manage, and oversee all aspects of Vera California research, coordinating with the initiative director to ensure alignment with Vera California priorities and timelines, the managing director of research on methodological approaches, and other Vera teams on overlapping content areas
  • Supervise, support, and mentor Vera California research staff, and lead research hiring or recruitment as needed
  • Support the whole Vera California team in ensuring appropriate deployment of data and evidence in support of its solutions
  • Work with Vera California director and associate director as a management team on annual planning, program development, staffing plans, and fundraising
  • Serve as a member of the Vera Research Leadership Team, along with other associate directors of research, collaborating on cross-cutting research priorities and policy and ensuring that researchers across the organization receive appropriate support
  • Cultivate relationships with CA-based researchers and organizations in the field, including acting as a primary point of contact for Vera California’s research partnerships
  • Support internal collaboration by partnering Vera’s Advocacy Department, Communications Department, Central Research and Data Science teams, and other Vera initiative staff to develop coordinated strategies that leverage research (including in advocacy campaigns)

2. Research Design and Implementation

  • Serve as Principal Investigator on research projects, developing and presenting IRB applications when relevant and ensuring that research is conducted to the highest ethical standards
  • Lead/train/supervise on data collection and analysis, overseeing all aspects of mixed methods research and data management and analysis for Vera California and ensuring alignment between project implementation and policy timelines
  • Participate in hands-on data collection and analysis
  • Conduct team and cross-team peer review in areas of methodological and subject matter expertise and coordinate peer review for Vera California products as needed
  • Coordinate with central data science team to ensure appropriate data infrastructure and standardized approaches

3. Research Presentation and Products

  • Serve as a research subject matter expert and organizational representative in key areas of Vera California’s work, including in testimony, to media, in coalitions, and other public facing forums
  • Shape evidence-based messaging and research for Vera California’s work, overseeing development, writing, and editing of research publications and evidence-based products in support of Vera California’s goals, including short data-informed fact sheets that respond to rapid response advocacy inquiries

What qualifications are we looking for?

Required:

  • Advanced degree and 9+ years of relevant experience, preferably in a relevant social science field, like public policy, criminal justice, or sociology. In lieu of degree requirement, relevant work or life experience may be considered.
  • Several years of experience supervising interdisciplinary research teams and working with mixed methods research and/or researchers;
  • Experience conducting applied policy research
  • Subject matter expertise, including an understanding of current criminal legal systems and policy, particularly in the state of California as well as relevant data sets and sources

Preferred:

  • Direct experience with and/or impact by the criminal justice or immigration system

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities you’ll bring:

  • Associate Directors of Research are subject matter experts, experienced researchers, managers, mentors, and project leaders with advanced research design and analytic skills
  • Experience leveraging social science approaches in applied research settings
  • Track record of having worked on collaborative analyses and ability to support and build advocacy efforts and external stakeholder relationships
  • Commitment to race equity is required
  • Ability to travel up to 15% of the time. This may vary dependent on thelocation of the applicant.

Location:

Please note this role can be remote from California, with strong preference for Los Angeles-based candidates who are able to follow a hybrid schedule to Vera’s office in Los Angeles, CA.

Compensation and Benefits:

The compensation range for this position is $129,000 - $134,000.Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The salary range listed is just one component of Vera Institute’s total compensation package for employees. As an employer of choice in our field, supporting Vera staff - both personally and professionally - is a priority. To do this, we invest in the well-being of our staff through other rewards including merit pay, generous paid time off, a comprehensive health insurance plan, student loan repayment benefits, professional development training opportunities and up to $2,000 annual for education costs and fees relevant to Vera work, employer-funded retirement plan, and flexible time. To learn more about Vera’s benefits offerings, click here.

Application Process:

To receive further consideration for this career opportunity, applicants are asked preliminary questions about logistics, their interest and qualifications. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional details about their experience via a phone screen/form in advance of an invitation for a virtual or in-person interview with the team. Some searches may explore scenarios during the interview process and/or an assessment prior to reference checks and a hiring decision.

Applications may also be faxed to:

ATTN: People, Place, and Culture / [ JOBTITLE]

Vera Institute of Justice

34 35th St, Suite 4-2A, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Fax: (212) 941-9407

Please use only one method (online, mail or fax) of submission.

No phone calls, please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Vera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.

Vera works to advance justice, particularly racial justice, in an increasingly multicultural country and globally connected world. We value diverse experiences, including with regard to educational background and justice system contact, and depend on a diverse staff to carry out our mission.

For more information about Vera, please visit www.vera.org.

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