Data Scientist, People Analytics

Position Overview

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. As a Data Scientist on our rapidly growing People Analytics team, you will leverage advanced analytics to tackle pressing talent challenges and drive measurable business impact. You will pioneer the application of data science to human capital, building sophisticated models and research that decode organizational behavior and shape Motive's talent strategy.

Responsibilities

Your work will span critical areas including:

• Predicting and enhancing talent acquisition, development, and retention
• Quantifying and elevating employee experience
• Optimizing team performance
• Maximizing productivity
• Rethinking how we measure talent

You will leverage structured problem-solving approaches and data science skills to identify and deliver high-impact solutions, as well as develop unique data science skills and human-capital expertise.

The Ideal Candidate Is:

• Passionate about human capital: Excited by the value we can add to our company and our employees, and inspired to help make a large positive impact.
• Innovative: Continually researches and evaluates emerging technologies. Stays current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seeks out opportunities to apply them.
• Creative: Thrives on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. Loves asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. Not afraid to share new ideas.
• Technical: Comfortable with open-source languages and passionate about developing further. Has hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• Statistically-minded: Has built models, validated them, and backtested them. Knows how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. Has experience with network analysis, clustering, classification, time series, and sentiment analysis.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field
• Background in organizational psychology or behavioral economics
• 3+ years of experience applying advanced analytics in people analytics, HR, or workforce planning
• Expert proficiency in Python or R, and SQL
• Proven track record of building and deploying machine learning models
• Experience with statistical analysis, experimental design, and causal inference
• Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to lead complex analytical initiatives
• Excellent communication skills - ability to translate complex analyses into actionable insights for diverse stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Organizational Network Analysis
• Experience in visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

Company Information

Who we are: Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

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