Center Of Excellence Research and Insights Manager

Awardco • Lindon, UT

16h

About The Position

The Awardco Center of Excellence (COE) helps shape best practices in recognition, engagement, and employee experience through research, practical insight, and education. The COE Research and Insights Manager will support this work by designing and delivering high-quality research studies, helping translate findings into thought leadership content, and contributing to internal and external education efforts. This role is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in I/O psychology, employee research, and survey design who enjoys turning data into practical, usable insight. This is an individual contributor role focused on research execution, study delivery, benchmark development, and content support.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Applied Psychology, Behavioral Science, or a related field
• 4-7 years of experience in employee research, survey design, people science, organizational research, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering research studies end-to-end
• Strong analytical and written communication skills, with the ability to turn findings into practical recommendations
• Experience working with survey platforms, research methods, and data storytelling
• Comfortable presenting findings to internal stakeholders and professional audiences

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to thought leadership, research publications, or educational content is a plus
• Strong grounding in I/O or people science principles
• Able to balance methodological rigor with business practicality
• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable working across functions
• Excited by building research that informs content, education, and market perspective

Responsibilities

• Design, field, and manage original COE research studies focused on topics such as employee engagement, recognition, motivation, wellbeing, and workplace experience
• Support the development of surveys, questionnaires, benchmarks, and measurement frameworks that can be used across COE initiatives
• Help maintain high standards for study quality, methodology, interpretation, and reporting
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align research priorities to COE content and insight needs
• Translate research findings into practical thought leadership assets including reports, white papers, articles, presentations, and supporting materials
• Contribute to the development of a recognizable Awardco point of view on employee recognition and engagement
• Support external-facing research storytelling through digestible, practitioner-friendly outputs
• Help design and deliver webinars, workshops, internal learning sessions, and training materials grounded in research findings
• Turn complex organizational psychology concepts into clear, useful education for HR and EX practitioner audiences
• Support the COE in building repeatable research-based materials that can be used across events, content, and enablement efforts

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level