Research Collaborator Jobs

Contract Duration: 12 months

• Work closely with researchers on user study design and implementation, and coordinate formal initiation of new user studies including those requiring IRB certification.
• Coordinate assignment of research assistants to user studies, track progress, and help to unblock studies when problems arise.

Job Responsibilities:

• Keep the broader team informed of changes to user study policies.
• Help train new research assistants joining the team.
• Maintain active user study programs, including updates to user study protocols or materials.
• Communicate about research activities through written updates or multi-media content produced for sharing on internal communication platforms.
• Coordinate the user study approval processes, which includes coordinating IRB approvals, extensions, and reviews.
• Assist with participant recruiting, scheduling facilities, and equipment procurement for user studies .

Skills

• Minimum 2 years of experience working in a research environment involving human subjects
• Ability to provide clear communications and communications materials
• Experience with coordinating and getting approvals for behavioral experiments with human participants
• Strong sense of ethical responsibility and respect for privacy
• Ability to facilitate effective meetings with a clear purpose and agenda
• Ability to work with researchers, engineers, and cross functional team members to see what needs to be done and propose novel solutions
• Project management experience
• Tools: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Project, Sharepoint, Wiki, Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence or similar systems

Education

• BA in English, BA/BS in Scientific field such as Psychology, Cognitive Science, HCI, HCDE, or education in Audio related fields such as Linguistics, Speech and Hearing Science, or Audiology.

Nice to have

• Tool experience with MATLAB, R, C++, Python and/or other data analysis tools
• Experience with writing research proposals and research papers.