Principal People Scientist

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

As a Principal People Scientist at Workvivo, you will play a pivotal role in helping organizations uncover the real story behind employee engagement, culture, and performance. You will lead high-impact consulting engagements with our customers, using your expertise in organizational psychology and data storytelling to design and deliver actionable employee listening strategies. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of our growing Employee Insights offering, creating meaningful impact across diverse client organizations while contributing to the evolution of our product, methodologies, and thought leadership. This is a high-visibility, strategic role that offers the freedom to innovate, the platform to influence, and the support of a world-class team.

About the Team

At Workvivo, we are on a mission to elevate the employee experience by making communication more human and workplace culture more connected. As part of the Zoom family, we bring together the agility of a startup with the reach of a global technology leader. You will be joining the Services team, led by the Head of Services. This team is dedicated to partnering with customers to translate insights into action and create better work experiences. You will work cross-functionally with product, data science, customer success, marketing, and sales, collaborating to evolve our approach to employee listening and people analytics.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing employee listening strategies across onboarding, engagement, DEI, and lifecycle touchpoints using Workvivo Employee Insights.
• Leading strategic consulting engagements, from discovery and diagnosis to executive reporting and action planning.
• Advising clients on best practices in employee experience, behavioral science, and organizational effectiveness.
• Creating compelling, executive-ready presentations that highlight key insights, trends, and recommendations.
• Collaborating with internal teams to enhance survey design, benchmarks, and insight reporting within the core product.
• Developing scalable frameworks and methodologies (e.g., drivers of engagement, predictive models, ROI models).
• Contributing to content development including case studies, customer playbooks, and white papers.
• Mentoring team members and acting as a subject matter expert on people science and analytics within the organization.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in organizational psychology, people analytics, employee engagement, or a related field.
• Master's or PhD in Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Science, HR Analytics, or a similar discipline.
• Demonstrated success in consulting or advisory roles, ideally in SaaS or HR tech environments.
• Expertise in employee survey platforms such as Qualtrics, Glint, Culture Amp, Peakon, or Medallia.
• Proficiency in applying statistical techniques (e.g., regression, factor analysis) using tools like SPSS, R, Python, or Excel.
• Ability to communicate insights clearly to non-technical audiences and influence executive stakeholders with confidence.
• High emotional intelligence and empathy when interpreting and delivering sensitive feedback.
• Ability to excel in fast-paced, evolving environments and thrive in customer-facing, C-suite interactions.

Ways of Working

Our structured hybrid approach is centered around our offices and remote work environments. The work style of each role, Hybrid, Remote, or In-Person, is indicated in the job description/posting.

Benefits

As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways. Click "Learn" for more information.

About Us

Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out to build the best collaboration platform for the enterprise, and today help people commu...